Health Affairs, 24, no. 3 (2005): 598 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.3.598 © 2005 by Project HOPE	New Online   Senate Health Reform Bill   Rewarding Providers   Public Option Policy Brief   Health Reform & Abortion   Delivery System Reform

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Infrastructure

PROLOGUE

The Infrastructure For Vaccine Development

The announcement by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in March 2005 that rubella has been eliminated from the United States represents the latest in a long line of tributes to the power of immunization to protect the health of populations. The story of rubella is instructive. By 1965 there were some 12.5 million cases of rubella reported in the United States, culminating in 12,000 babies of rubella-infected pregnant women being born deaf, blind, or both; 6,200 stillbirths; and more than 5,000 abortions. In the wake of the development of a vaccine and an aggressive immunization program, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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