Vaccine innovators Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering

Description:

Have you gotten a shot at the doctor's office recently? In the 1920s, about six thousand children a year were dying of pertussis, or whooping cough. Grace Eldering and Pearl Kendrick began to study of the disease, and their research eventually led to a reliable vaccine. Learn how their combined efforts helped to treat and eventually prevent a deadly disease that mostly affected children, as well as providing a model for how to approach public health concerns.

subjects: Whooping cough,  Bacteriologists,  Pertussis vaccines,  Discoveries in science,  Juvenile literature,  Women bacteriologists,  Women scientists,  Women, biography,  Women, biography, juvenile literature,  Discoveries in science, juvenile literature

People: Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980),  Grace Eldering (1900-1988)