Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases. Since the eradication of small pox in 1976, many other potentially life compromising if not threatening diseases have been dealt with subsequently. This event was a major leap not only in the scientific world already burdened with many diseases but also in the mindset of the common man who became more receptive to novel...

AIDS was first reported in 1981 by Gottlieb MS et al at USC (University of California) Medical Center: Healthy homosexual men with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and mucosal can-didiasis had deficiency in CD4 T lymphocyte, a critical immune defense cell (1). In 1983, Dr. F. Barré-Sinoussi and L. Montagnier isolated a new human T-lymphotropic retrovirus, later named HIV-1(human immunodeficiency ...