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  Amy's First Shot

Learn More about Vaccines and the Immune System

  VacciToons (English)
  VacciToons (French)
  VacciToons (Spanish)
  "All About Vaccines" from the FDA kids' home page
  Create vaccines in a virtual laboratory!
  Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination
  How antibodies are produced
  How your immune system works (from How Stuff Works)
  How viruses work (from How Stuff Works)
  How do vaccines work?
  The Immune System (from NIAID)
  Infectious Diseases (from NIAID)
  Time for Kids online article: "Getting Smart About Vaccines"
  The Biology Project Immunization Tutorial (U. of Arizona)
  Understanding The Immune System: online information from the National Cancer Institute, with lots of illustrations
  Vaccines -- How and Why?

Interactive Tutorials from the University of Leicester

 

Virology Time Machine

  Siptah's Revenge! "For three millennia I have waited for revenge on the terrible disease which ruined my life". Learn how polio ruined an ancient Egytpian Pharoh's life - & what we're going to do about it!"
  Domagk, Fleming, Waksman & the Third Man: An interactive multimedia tutorial about antibiotics
  A dose of the pox... "How did we eliminate naturally-occuring smallpox outbreaks? Who developed the first vaccine? Should we destroy preserved laboratory stocks of smallpox?"
  How Now Mad Cow: How much do you really know about BSE? Can you get brain disease from eating beef? Decide for yourself...
  The Panama Puzzle: "Play the part of Walter Reed, early 20th century U.S. Army doctor, & try to figure out what's killing the troops constructing the Panama Canal."
  Virus Replication "Ever wondered what it would be like to be polio virus or an HIV virus? This interactive tutorial lets you 'transform' yourself into a virus & then asks you to answer how you would behave under certain biological conditions. If you make a mistake, don't worry... lots of background information & pictures are available to help. A great learning tool!"

Other Resources

  All the Virology on the WWW
  The Big Picture Book of Viruses
  Immunization Action Coalition
  Vaccine Information (from the Immunization Action Coalition)
  Brown University Bio160 project webpages on vaccines and infectious diseases
  Immunization Info: find out about the diseases, the symptoms, the vaccines, and other frequently asked questions
  The Vaccine Page
  NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases
  CDC National Vaccine Program Office
  CDC Index of Infectious Diseases
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