Covers the latest advances in the study of highly infectious viruses - including measles, polio, rabies, Japanese encephalitis, and respiratory and diarrheal viruses. Describes the World Health Organization"s new strategies for the control of hepatitis B, polio, measles, influenza, and other acute respiratory virus diseases.;This book discusses progress in the development of HIV and hepatitis vaccines, new concepts in biotechnology, vaccines derived from biotechnology and improved conventional vaccines. Should be of interest to general and molecular and cell biologists, microbiologists, virologists, infectious disease specialists, pathologists, immunologists, parasitologists, geneticists, biochemists, public health officials at the federal, state and local levels.