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When she arrived at New England Medical Center, Golovchenko was told she would need a tetanus shot and crutches...
...today the number is 20, with as many as five in a single visit. Ouch! The first ever five-in-one combination vaccine will take a bit of the sting out of this rite of passage. Infants can now be protected against hepatitis B and polio, along with diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), with a single injection given at 2, 4 and 6 months, eliminating half a dozen shots in the process...
...Inside the Finlay, director Concepci?n Campa, a Politburo member, oversees an assembly line of vaccines for diseases such as hepatitis, tetanus and meningitis. When a meningitis epidemic hit the U.S. in the late '90s, the pharmaceutical giant Smith-Kline came calling - working around the softened U.S. economic embargo against Cuba - to buy a special vaccine that Campa herself had developed. Asked if Cuba had any bio-weapons research going on in its labs that Time couldn't see, Campa strongly denied it. "You see all this equipment we've imported, even for things as simple as conserving the low temperatures...
When I started working with UNICEF, one of the statistics I saw was that 40,000 children die every day from preventable diseases, such as measles, tetanus, diphtheria. The latest figures show that the number is down to 29,000. This gives me a certain sense of satisfaction--to know that our efforts make a difference...
...reasons for the shortages differ for each vaccine. For example, the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis) vaccine got hit by a double whammy. One of its major producers, then called Wyeth Lederle Vaccines, left the market just as new rules to cut down the mercury in the vaccine began to take effect. Aventis, another major DTaP producer, was caught off guard and had trouble overhauling its manufacturing process while simultaneously ramping up production. Making vaccines isn't a particularly profitable business, so there isn't a lot of competition for the work...