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...subject I would normally deem column worthy, but in this case the irony is too rich to ignore. For even as it celebrates the benefits of childhood vaccination, the U.S. is running out of the very vaccines needed to do the job. The biggest shortfalls: chicken-pox vaccine, various tetanus vaccines and the so-called pneumococcal conjugate vaccine...
...government is about to spend $850 million to make sure there's enough smallpox vaccine to protect every man, woman and child against the theoretical risk of a bioterrorist attack. Yet at the same time it's having trouble protecting kids from the clear and present danger of tetanus and meningitis...
VACCINES CLEARED Two of the most common childhood vaccines cause no long-lasting harm, even in kids who experience rare seizures after immunization. The biggest-ever study of side effects from the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (DTP) vaccines concludes fears of autism and developmental problems are unfounded...
...Immunizations at University Health Services (UHS). Whoops! The Charles is only safe to swim in 360 out of 365 days of the year, so you'll have to take rabies, tetanus and West Nile virus shots. Don't worry, trained professionals will be injecting those huge needles in your arm...it won't hurt...
...spending--and far less in places like Nigeria and Kenya--compared with an average of $2,485 in developed countries like the U.S. Less than half the people in the area have access to clean water, and just over half of all children are vaccinated against diphtheria, polio and tetanus. The notion that African countries can somehow buy and distribute the expensive drugs that can prolong life for those infected with HIV--even at the drastically subsidized rates that some companies have promised--is farfetched. Beyond that, the illness and death of so many workers is draining what little strength...