Vaccines
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Vaccine Finder

Add the Vaccine Finder widget to your website to help your community find a vaccination location. Copy the widget code, available in English and Spanish, from website.

Video

Watch and discuss the PBS NOVA series, Vaccines - Calling the Shots, which takes viewers around the world to track epidemics, explore the science behind vaccinations, hear from parents wrestling with vaccine-related questions, and shed light on the risks of opting out.

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Young Readers

Help young readers delve into the biology and mechanisms of infections, diseases, and immunity.Book Cover Science Comics Plagues

  • Science Comics: Plagues: The Microscopic Battlefield | Falynn Koch | Macmillan | 128 pages | ISBN: 978-1626727526 | Grade Level 4-8
  • Book cover Baby Medical School VaccinesBaby Medical School: Vaccines | Margot Alesund | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | 2017 | 30 pages | ISBN: 978-1978106819 | Grade Level 1-2​

Skills Training

  • Our Best Shot: Workshop Kit is designed for community leaders hosting workshops for seniors and their caregivers on the basics of vaccination. The “soup-to-nuts” kit covers how vaccines work, common vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccine safety and efficacy, the vaccine schedule for adults 60-64 and 65+, and where and how to get vaccinated. A quiz is designed for participants to use during the workshop as a discussion tool. Consider asking a public health nurse to administer the influenza vaccination.
  • The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) provides in-person and online instruction. Live webinars often are recorded for future viewing. Check the NNLM Training page for a complete list of programs and schedules.
Featured Books
Title: On Immunity
Author Eula Bliss
Publisher Graywolf Press
Year published 2015
Book image On Immunity cover image
Title: The Vaccine Race
Author Meredith Wadman, M.D.
Publisher Penguin Books
Year published 2018
Book image Vaccine Race book
Title: Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism
Author Peter J Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published 2018
Book image Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism book cover

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