dr. meredith wadman. she received her ba in biology from stanford, her md from oxford university and has written for "the new york times" amongs could is current lay staff writer at science magazine. as an epidemiologist and a researcher in training i was excited to read her book, the vaccine race, signs, politics and human cost of defeating disease. the senators for a disease control and prevention considers vaccinations the number one public health achievement of the 20th century. indeed vaccines have saved millions of lives. it is because of vaccinations that smallpox is eradicated and the scourge of other diseases such as polio, rue la and chicken box are a thing of the past. this is a story about great achievement in public health and about the men, women and children who happened make the vaccines possible. throughout this book, cob tell prayer interviews with -- contemporary interviews keep these individual as i live own then page, dr. wadman does not shire airplane from the uncomfortable truth in