This study looked at antibody levels in subjects immunized with various kinds of tetanus vaccine. So nothing that new. But the discussion w...

This was an unusual study on a vaccine-like method of protecting children from whooping cough. Instead of using whole killed bacterial cell...

Ok, here's another study that doesn't look at vaccines specifically, but rather the background of the disease they prevent, and how...

This study is a follow-up analysis of previous results by Kendrick and Eldering of a clinical trial in Grand Rapids, Michigan, of a whole-c...

The author of this study (Philip B. Cowles) seemed skeptical of some claims made about the tetanus toxoid vaccine, so set out to test them....

This study compared unrefined tetanus toxoid and also a refined version, precipitated with alum (aluminum potassium sulfate) in guinea pigs...

I once read an article questioning the safety and usefulness of the tetanus vaccine. This vaccine is made of the tetanus toxin itself, dena...

There had been some good results in animals with vaccines against influenza, and possibly some good trials in humans too, though not in oth...

This paper was a speech given by Sir Ledingham, director of the Lister Institute in London. He says some interesting things. Speaking on th...

This is a follow-up to an interim report on a big trial of whooping cough vaccine ( 065 ). That report didn't show much difference betw...

One big question is whether you can tell if someone is immune to a disease (with methods other than exposing them and seeing if they get si...

This study has two parts, both relating to whooping cough vaccination. The first seems like a brief summary of a clinical trial, and the se...

In previous studies of whooping cough vaccines, most showed protection but a few did not, and it wasn't really clear why these studies ...

This is another trial of a pertussis vaccine, similar to the others. The justification was that whooping cough is contagious before it is e...

Since various different trials of whooping cough vaccines had given confusing positive and negative results, Morris Siegel wanted to settle...

When active, the bacteria that cause tetanus can only survive in conditions completely lacking in oxygen, but they can form very tough spor...

Many virus infections seem to lead to long-term immunity, so you get it only once; at least, that's how it seemed. But one obvious exce...

There've been other reports of reinfection with polio after an initial infection ( 077 ), so it seems immunity is not always lifelong o...

Apparently back in the 30s, the Soviet Union was doing research on influenza, some of which used human volunteers. 1 Well, better flu rese...

Some investigators in 1936 questioned the effectiveness of any whooping cough vaccine developed thus far, though most thought they were help...

First, the scary numbers: in 1936, there were more than 300,000 cases of whooping cough in the US, and 15% of infected infants died from it...

In 1904, smallpox and diphtheria were fairly under control, so fever-causing diseases and malnutrition were the most important destroyers o...

Diphtheria is a bacterial infection that can be pretty serious and deadly, especially in children. Fortunately we can form very good immuni...

This is a bit different from my usual style, but a friend of mine on Facebook posted a link to a blog called "Measles Shmeasles Goes t...