Haiti Cholera Epidemic Could Have Been Blunted with Use of Mobile Stockpile of Oral Vaccine
Monday, April 11, 2011 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Had a large stockpile of oral cholera vaccine been available and deployed to inoculate the majority of Haitians most at risk after the outbreak following last year's earthquake, the illness and death from the cholera epidemic could have been reduced by about half, according to new research.