December 5-9 is National Influenza Vaccination Week
The week-long emphasis on flu vaccination was established to highlight the importance of continuing influenza vaccination, as well as fostering
greater use of flu vaccine after the holiday season into January and beyond.
National Influenza Vaccination Week provides an opportunity for public health professionals, health care professionals, health
advocates, communities, and families from across the country to work together to promote flu vaccination before the traditional winter peak in flu activity.
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LifeScience Moment: Smallpox eradicated from the world
On Dec. 9, 1979, members of the WHO in Geneva announced that smallpox had been eradicated from the world.
The last known natural case was in Somalia in 1977. Since then, the only known cases were caused by a laboratory accident in
1978 in Birmingham, England, which killed one person and caused a limited outbreak. Thanks to the success of vaccination, the
last natural outbreak of smallpox in the U.S. occurred in 1949.
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It's a Small World
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MRSA Bacteria (Photo Credit: Janice Haney Carr)
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Science Quote
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
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Jacob Bronowski
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(1908-1974)
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