Vaccine Books

Deadly Choices

How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Paul A. Offit, M.D. - 2010/2015 PAR 614.47 OFFIT - Cedar Mill Library

Many horror stories about disease, and antivaxxer, media, and government stupidity. Baldfaced antivaxxer lies. Lots of stories about horrid diseases among the unvaccinated, and among the immunologically compromised.

That isn't enough. Telling a person they are wrong doesn't change their mind. Telling them that they have a disease doesn't cure them.

How do we change minds, and shift people towards better understandings of physical (and emotional) reality? Many knowledge heros are mentioned, but not their most effective techniques. How can we amplify the voices of those with powerful stories to tell? How do we outmessage the liars? How do we teach rational thought?

That's a different book.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxsackievirus

As is, the only tool on offer is attrition; average intelligence increases very slightly as each fool and their children die. Wouldn't it be better to help them think rationally? That might also help them get more lucrative jobs, and spend less money on crap they don't need, peddled by the same TV shows that subvert rationality.

The last is the real problem; the purpose of television (and social media) is to make people stupid enough to buy the advertised products. With enough eyes, all the shallow are buggy.

How to Make a Vaccine

An Essential Guide for COVID-19 & Beyond

John Rhodes PhD Immunology / RA644.C67 R48 2021 / PSU Library

• ix Preface 2021 300th anniversary of immunization
• x 2015 First malaria vaccine introduced in Africa
• xi 1918 Monday March 11 Fort Funston KS: company cook Albert Mitchell infirmary sore throat
  • 107 more sick soldiers by noon, 500 by Friday
• xi "some experts"(?) say Haskell County Kansas hog/poultry farms, flu cases in January 1918

  • https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10.5555/19292700266

  • Epidemic influenza : a survey Jordan, Edwin O. (Edwin Oakes), 1866-1936. ©1927

    • https://librarysearch.ohsu.edu/permalink/01ALLIANCE_OHSU/19jn9i0/alma999081701858

• xii 1918-19 estimated to have killed 50M people worldwide. most between mid-Sept to mid-Dec 1918
• xiii first flu vaccines 1941, US troops immunized 1945 / polio Salk 1954, Sabin 1959 / measles 1963,1968
  • smallpox Jenner 1721, but late 1600s in China
• p002 mid 2002 Foshan County near Guangzhou, farmer encounters wild civet, index case SARS / Feb 2003 305 cases 5 deaths

  • p006 SARS-CoV traced to specific bat cave in Yunnan Province mountains, 37 miles from Kunming

• p003-5 c1950 Rhodes nearly dies of guinea pig coxsackievirus

more later

• p007 coronaviruses (Co V) cause 20% of colds, rhinoviruses cause 40%.

• p008 CoV imaged and named by virologist June Almieda in 1967, later HIV

• p009 CoV targets ACE2 outside cell membranes of lungs, heart etc. After attaching, fuses with cell membrane and injects viral RNA

• p010 Huanan Market in WuhanMap

• p011 First fatality 2020 January 11. First case in Japan, 1/11, in Korea 1/19
• p011

  The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 2020 Mar 17 Andersen et al Nature Medicine

  • "not a laboratory construct or purposely manipulated virus"
• p12 50% of spread from asymptomatic individuals. Highest nose/throat levels shortly before symptoms

• p15 diphtheria viral toxinantitoxinantigens antibodies