Nature Reviews Immunology
http://www.nature.com/nri/journal/v11/n12/index.html
December 2011 Vol 11 No 12

Perspectives – Science and society
Vaccines for the twenty-first century society
Rino Rappuoli, Christian W. Mandl, Steven Black & Ennio De Gregorio
1865 | doi:10.1038/nri3085

The childhood vaccination campaigns of the twentieth century represent one of the great success stories of modern medicine. But are we yet to realize the full potential of vaccines? This article discusses the medical needs of the twenty-first century society and proposes that new vaccines will play a major part in addressing these needs.