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Haiti-Bound Cholera Vaccine "Absolutely Useless' According to Bangladesh Field Trial | Haiti Chery

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The oral cholera vaccine Shanchol is being recommended for Haiti's poor, although sanitation is a better approach to the eradication of cholera. The vaccine protects only 45% of those vaccinated during the first year, and its preparations for use in developing countries contain 6 times the maximum allowable level of a mercury-based preservative that can cause autism. This report on a 2011 field trial in Bangladesh can be read by non-scientists and gives a valuable summary of aspects of the vaccine.
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Dady Chery grew up at the heart of an extended working-class family in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She emigrated to New York when she was fourteen and since then has traveled throughout the world and lived in Europe and several North American cities. She (more...)
 
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