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SUMMARY:Whooping cough vaccines: a century of good science and bad sci
 ence, a free lunch time talk by David Miles
DESCRIPTION:Join David Miles, author of the new book ‘How Vaccines W
 ork’, for a lunch time talk in Barbican Library\nTicket: https://www
 .eventbrite.co.uk/e/952702106647\nA hundred years ago, whooping cough 
 killed more than one in every hundred children born in Europe. Eighty 
 years ago, two women in Grand Rapids, Michigan, developed the vaccine 
 that stopped it. All it took was years of working evenings and weekend
 s, an army of volunteer healthcare workers and lab technicians funded 
 by donations from local businesses. Fifty years ago, their whooping co
 ugh vaccine was at the centre of a scare that ushered in the modern an
 tivaccine movement. The story of the whooping cough vaccine is a story
  of good science, bad science and of the limitations of science when a
 pplied to anything as complicated as human beings.\nDavid Miles is an 
 infectious disease immunologist who has worked mostly on diseases of c
 hildhood in Africa and the vaccinations that protect against them. He 
 now lives in London and tutors on the London School of Hygiene and Tro
 pical Medicine's online MSc course. His first popular science book, Ho
 w Vaccines Work, was published in March 2023.\n\nFor more information 
 visit http://www.goldenlaneestate.org/events/whooping-cough-vaccines-a
 -century-of-good-science-and-bad-science
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LOCATION:Barbican Library
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CONTACT:020 7638 0569
ORGANIZER;CN="Yuriko Nakano":http://www.goldenlaneestate.org/profile/Y
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