Vaccines have been a huge ally in the fight against disease. «Along with the sanitation of drinking water, vaccines were the greatest public health advance of the 20th century,» says Meredith Wadman, a doctor and journalist for Science magazine, in this [IN]Pertinente interview .
Find out more about vaccines, their history, the manufacturing and approval process, and how these drugs have managed to eradicate huge threats to world health, such as smallpox.
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Big issues, big names in a new programme dedicated to interviews with international personalities from the world of politics, economics and society. These conversations with special guests, conducted by journalist Pedro Pinto, aim to simplify and help demystify some of today's most important issues. Every month, on the Foundation's website.
