{Guest Column} Vaccines: A gun cabinet for your immune system

By Julie Drake
Special to the Herald Times
RBC I I was recently asked at a county emergency medical services council meeting why I was there. Having only been on the job for one month my answer was not eloquent, but I was able to tumble the words communicable disease and population health out of my mouth. In hindsight, I wish I would have simply said “because of the 1918 flu epidemic.”
Flu killed an…