Vaccinated: From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines

Updated with a New Foreword

"Medical writing at its finest."-David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs-vaccinations-and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide.

Maurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister was...