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Polio
New polio data have been reported by researchers at Harvard University, Kids Risk Project
August 13th, 2008
According to recent research published in the American Journal of Public Health, "We assessed the costs, risks, and benefits of possible future major policy decisions on vaccination, surveillance, response plans, and containment following global eradication of wild polioviruses. We developed a decision analytic model to estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios and net benefits of risk management options for polio for the 20-year period and stratified the world according to income level to capture important variability between nations." "For low-, lower-middle-, and upper-middle-income groups currently using oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV), we found that...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-08-13)
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