Herd Immunity: Can Mass Vaccination Achieve It?

Published in VRAN Newsletter, spring, 2014 By Tetyana Obukhanych, Ph.D. Even though endemic outbreaks of common childhood diseases, such as measles, have been eliminated in some regions after prolonged mass vaccination efforts, we are still being constantly reminded that reducing vaccination coverage of children in a community poses the risk of a reimported disease outbreak … Continue reading Herd Immunity: Can Mass Vaccination Achieve It?