TY - JOUR AU - Krause, Richard M. AB - THE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. VOL. 135, NO.2. FEBRUARY 1977 © 1977 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. SPECIAL ARTICLE Prevention through Immunization: New Opportunities or End of the Road? From the National Institute of Allergy and Richard M. Krause Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland I consider it a special honor to be invited to give through immunization: new opportunities or the lecture to commemorate the 74th birthday end of the road? of Dr. Maxwell Finland. It was never my privi­ There has been much loose talk about the lege to work at the Harvard Medical Unit at declining importance of infectious diseases. One Boston City Hospital in those years from 1932 to hears the remark that, because the bacterial in­ 1972, when there was associated with Dr. Finland fections have been conquered, we can move on such an outstanding group of clinical investiga­ to the degenerative diseases and diseases such as tors in infectious diseases, but I have had surro­ cancer and arteriosclerosis. We must set to right gate mentors who were associates of Dr. Fin­ these misrepresentations. Infectious diseases still land, such as Dr. John Dingle. So I claim some remain the TI - Prevention through Immunization: New Opportunities or End of the Road? JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases DO - 10.1093/infdis/135.2.318 DA - 1977-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/prevention-through-immunization-new-opportunities-or-end-of-the-road-lZj2amN7SB SP - 318 EP - 329 VL - 135 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -