Encephalitis Vaccine
International group created to prevent spread of tick-borne encephalitis
Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 28th, 2003
"Vaccination can only be offered effectively to the general public by the means of social marketing. Experience gained with tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Austria will be used to demonstrate the need and importance of this public health tool," scientists in Austria report.
"After the realization that only mass vaccination would effect a decrease in the number of TBE cases, a nation-wide TBE vaccination program was initiated in 1981," said Michael Kunze and Ursula Kunze at the University of Vienna. "Since then there has...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2003-05-28)
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