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July 02, 2003
INTERNATIONAL
IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Vietnam Takes
Tough Measures Against Infectious Diseases"
Health officials in
Vietnam have pledged to take extra precautions to control the spread of summer
infectious diseases, such as Japanese encephalitis, cholera, and typhoid. To
raise public awareness, the health sector plans to distribute tips on food
hygiene and encourage people to do their part to safeguard the community's
health. Other initiatives, such as immunization efforts and the implementation
of national malaria and petechial fever prevention projects, will also be
accelerated. Since the beginning of summer, more than 1,600 typhoid cases have
been reported in Vietnam, and there have been over 7,000 malaria cases recorded
in the Mekong Delta in the first half of this year--an increase of nearly 50
percent.
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"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
"Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?"