A Decade of Vaccines

The untold story of one of the most successful global health interventions of all time.

An activist health worker administers a polio vaccination to a child in Aleppo in 2014. Image credit: Hosam Katan/Reuters

Infectious disease is a war on many fronts. Sanitation removes germs from the environment, antibiotics fight active infections and vaccines provide immunity. Right now, the battle that’s dominating headlines is the coronavirus outbreak. While public health officials around the world…