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Between Sept. 25 and Sept. 29, 560 women in the
Busoga region of Uganda were vaccinated against tetanus, which caused as many as
400 deaths in the area last year. The Busoga region has the highest incidence
of tetanus in the country. According to the Uganda National Expanded Program on
Immunization, health officials reached 87 percent of the target group. At the
launch of a national campaign against tetanus, Uganda's health minister, Jim
Muhwezi, said: "We shall go around the country to mobilize everyone for a total
war against maternal and neonatal tetanus," and he called on pregnant women to
visit antenatal clinics at least four times to help reduce the high maternal
mortality rate in the country.
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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?"