PUSH FOR MORE CHOLERA INOCULATIONS
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PUSH FOR MORE CHOLERA INOCULATIONS
Published: New York Times, August 17, 2012
Pressure to adopt a cholera vaccine as part of the routine response to outbreaks mounted as two expert panels advised the World Health Organization to use it. On Thursday, experts meeting in Washington endorsed the use of the vaccine to control the continuing outbreak in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Studies conducted by medical charities there showed that two doses gave 90 percent protection. Separately, an expert panel advised the World Health Organization this year to seek enough money to create a global stockpile of two million doses for emergencies. On Friday, Sierra Leone declared its cholera outbreak a national humanitarian emergency; it has had almost 11,000 cases and 176 deaths since January. Cholera kills through rapid dehydration. The vaccine is for healthy people, but it could be used to surround outbreaks and keep them from spreading.
A version of this brief appeared in print on August 18, 2012, on page A5 of the New York edition with the headline: Push for More Cholera Inoculations.
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