I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Meanwhile in places like Angola where people don't have access to vaccinations, let alone the luxury to bitch about them or find youtube conspiracies - it is life and death.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=11664217Almost 80 years after the yellow fever vaccine was created in a New York laboratory, a massive outbreak of the disease has killed hundreds of people in Angola, where most were never immunised.
Now, the virus is jumping across borders into other nations whose populations are also largely unvaccinated.
More than 3000 suspected cases are in Angola and 1000 in neighbouring Congo, making this the biggest urban epidemic in decades. More than 400 people have died. There are growing concerns that Chinese workers - of whom there are thousands in Angola - will carry the virus to Asia, where nearly all of the rural poor are also unvaccinated.
The explosion of yellow fever has put severe strain on stockpiles of the vaccine. And the four major manufacturers that produce the vaccine cannot make enough to conduct the kind of campaign that would quickly halt the spread of the disease in other parts of the region.
Yellow fever was once a devastating scourge in the West - in 1702, New York City lost 10 percent of its population to the virus. Thanks to the vaccine and mosquito eradication programmes, it faded in the United States long ago. The fact that the disease is emerging again as an international threat reflects a lack of preparedness by local and global health institutions, and Africa's transformation into a more urbanised and interconnected continent.
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