Inside the High-Stakes World of Vaccine Development

Vaccines are widely recognized as the most effective way we've got to fight infectious disease, a bulwark against a staggeringly diverse array of potentially pathogenic organisms looking to circumvent our defenses. Pervasive vaccines like those for influenza, measles, or polio offer a sense of security, but it wasn't always so, and a range of established and emerging threats continue to present real problems. Given the physical interconnectedness of even the most remote locations wit