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Vaccine Pipeline Epidemic

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On December 6th in the New York Times, Donald McNeil Jr. writes, “Yellow Fever Epidemic in Africa Shows Gaps in Vaccine Pipeline. An outbreak of yellow fever in Africa this year was a huge epidemic that was almost a disaster. “The epidemic was not widely recognized”, public health experts recently reported. The epidemic also showing the weaknesses in the emergency vaccine supply pipeline.The first deaths of yellow fever were reported in Angola. Originally they were misdiagnosed as food poisoning. The global emergency vaccine stockpile was drained before just one city was entirely protected from yellow fever. Also, diagnostic laboratories were too far away which made it months before people were warned that the outbreak was present. Brazil

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