May 12, 2006
Injecting New Ideas Into Vaccines
To fight childhood scourges, researchers explore alternatives to traditional shots
This year perhaps half a million children will die of measles — even though a vaccine has existed for four decades and costs only a dime per dose.
In the United States, thanks to the vaccine, the disease has become rare. But in developing countries, the logistics of immunizing millions of children pre-sent a significant barrier. The same is true of several other widespread, but easily
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