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COURSE OBJECTIVE:  To study the neuro-immune system function as it relates to empirical and mechanistic perspectives in health and disease.  This module provides an overview of vaccines. COURSE OUTLINE: • What is polio • Why only in modern countries? The “American disease.” • DDT and pesticides. • The great debate: virologists vs the toxicologists • SV40 – polio vaccine and cancer • AFP – acute flaccid paralysis