Health Affairs, 24, no. 3 (2005): 705 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.3.705 © 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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Implementation

PROLOGUE

Implementation: Vaccine Promise And Pitfalls

Parents worldwide, frightened by reports of a possible link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, refuse to have their children vaccinated, leaving them unprotected against deadly diseases and threatening to disrupt the "herd immunity" that protects entire societies. Commercial vaccine manufacturers have focused on the lucrative "travelers’ market" for enteric disease but have neglected the specific needs of the developing world, where 5,500 children die each day as a result of such illnesses. In October 2004 reports surfaced that Chiron, which manufactures half the U.S. supply of influenza vaccine, cannot ensure the safety of the vaccine produced in its . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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