December 5-11 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: The WHO announced that "smallpox has been eradicated from the world."
On Dec. 9, 1979, members of the WHO announced that "smallpox has 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.
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Where do we come from?
Explore the genealogy of life science companies through one-of-a-kind posters!
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It's a Small World
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Salmonella Typhimurium (Photo Credit: Janice Haney Carr)
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Science Quote
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
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Hippocrates, Greek physician
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(c. 460-377 BC)
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Info.Resource, owner and publisher of Maine LifeScience.com and the upcoming LifeScienceHistory.com, want
to thank all of the front line workers who have supported us during the COVID-19 Pandemic, an historical crisis not
experienced since the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19.
