The Lancet  
Aug 06, 2011  Volume 378  Number 9790  p457 – 540
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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Is immunisation child protection?
Adam Finn, Julian Savulesc

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The Lancet’s Series entitled new decade of vaccines shows the great opportunities for, and many challenges that face, successful development and implementation of vaccines in the coming decades. The Series emphasises recent advances in biomedical sciences, particularly molecular microbiology, immunology, and genetics. But the biggest hurdle to realisation of this potential could instead relate to failure of parental acceptance of safe and effective vaccination.