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Authorities should focus on India's real health problem: fake and substandard medicines.
At this AEI event, panelists will comment on the CDC's future with vaccines, drawing from experiences in public health, policy, and industry.
In late May, a deadly mutant strain of E. coli broke out in Germany and spread across at least 12 countries. The bacterium, which is more toxic and infectious than any other known strain of E coli, left 1,800 infected and 18 dead by early June.
Too much money is devoted to issues that seem well beyond the scope of a World Health Organization primarily concerned with infectious diseases.
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About a third of the world’s population, concentrated in poorer regions of the world, may be infected with TB, which generally lies dormant until the carrier’s immunity is impaired by another disease (often HIV infection). Without treatment, about half of the patients with active TB will die. According to WHO...
Scott Gottlieb, M.D., reviews Michael Willrich's "Pox:An American History". The book chronicles the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service through governmental intrusion during the historical epidemic of 1898-1903.
The time for the "quiet diplomacy" of the West and South Africa has come and gone. Action is required in this outpost of tyranny.
Multilateral organizations in conjunction with the FDA must do more to expose the problem of counterfeit drugs and help countries tighten regulatory controls.
