Vaxx

Title: Vaxx

Writer: Roel Coutinho

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789026352935

Condition: Good

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Description:
In Vaxx, former RIVM director Coutinho gives an objective overview of vaccines, their history, effects, advantages and disadvantages. Accessible, for everyone who wants to know more or wants to make a choice.

Vaxx by former director of the RIVM Roel Coutinho tells how vaccinations have made our world a better place. Polio, smallpox, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, rubella or hepatitis B – you don't have to go far back in time to get an idea of ​​the disruptive effects that infectious diseases have had worldwide in the past.

Even though many anti-vaxxers think differently, thanks to the preventive effect of vaccination programs, we have freed ourselves from serious childhood diseases and the elderly are also increasingly better protected. However, new pandemics and epidemics – such as corona, AIDS, SARS or Ebola – have shown time and again that it is naive to think that we have conquered infectious diseases forever.

In Vaxx, Roel Coutinho outlines the historical and medical history of infectious diseases against which we can protect ourselves thanks to vaccinations. In a world that is shaking to its foundations because of covid-19, Coutinho shows how vaccines were developed in the past and what contribution they make to our health.

'Former RIVM director responds to anti-vax movement with book on vaccines.' – NOS