This image was incorporated into a larger curriculum aimed towards educating students about the organs and tissues of the immune system. View our animation showcase “HILLEMAN – A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children” to learn more about the immune system and how vaccines help combat devastating diseases.
The 2nd installment of the series anchors the animation with a real-life scenario in 1920s Alaska, rushing diphtheria anti-toxin to treat an epidemic. Once upon a time, we didn’t have a vaccine for the deadly virus that causes diphtheria, and people who were infected with the diphtheria virus were infected easily and quickly, suffering debilitating symptoms requiring hospital treatment.
XVIVO is helping Medical History Pictures, Inc. to develop 3D animation for a biographical documentary about Dr. Maurice Hilleman (1919-2005), one of the most important contributors to modern vaccinology. We will routinely update with behind-the-scenes images while providing some science notes and musings. Vaccines against viruses are said to be made of dead or weakened pathogens, which already hints at the existence …