Saturday, March 11, 2006

vacination doesn't reach everyone

Here is some good news on measles. It demonstrates that with some energy we can fight wide spread epidemic disease. But it also demonstrates that these vacines often do not get to everyone and then not for a while. Often the poor are the last to receive them. Here is a vacine available since 1960. It took 46 years to reach some people.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060310/ap_on_he_me/un_measles

and when it does get to people, in poorer countries there is little quality control and counterfeiting is big business.

http://www.curevents.com/vb/showthread.php?p=342026#post342026

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