Word: polio
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...That’s led some people to question whether we should be spending so much money on polio,” she added...
...most cost-effective way to treat polio is to continue vaccinations until the virus has been eradicated, according to a study released yesterday by two researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...Since 1988 the number of polio cases worldwide has declined by 99 percent. The small number of cases has led some public health officials to suggest that it would be cheaper to treat the virus on an individual basis than to continue widespread preventive immunization...
...Paralytic polio, the condition caused by the wild polio virus, claimed its last victim in the United States in 1979 and the number of incidents worldwide was under 2,000 in 2006, according to a statement from an earlier study. But the virus has yet to be eliminated in some parts of the developed world...
...similar study, published in December, Thompson and Tebbens, a research associate in the School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management, reported that the United States spent nearly $35 billion on polio vaccinations between 1955 and 2005. The researchers found that if vaccinations stopped, 1.1 million cases of the disease could erupt in the United States alone, ultimately costing the country $180 billion more than if the original policy were maintained. [SEE CORRECTIONS BELOW...