| LINKS About the development of this Site
| 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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