[DOWNLOAD] "Dee-Fense! Dee-Fense!: Preparing for Pandemic Flu; Federal Research, Economic Incentives for Industry, And a More Responsive Regulatory Regime will All be Necessary to Produce a Timely and Widely Available Vaccine." by Issues in Science and Technology # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Dee-Fense! Dee-Fense!: Preparing for Pandemic Flu; Federal Research, Economic Incentives for Industry, And a More Responsive Regulatory Regime will All be Necessary to Produce a Timely and Widely Available Vaccine.
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 230 KB
Description
Vaccination to prevent viral and bacterial diseases is modern medicine's most cost-effective intervention. Were a vaccine to be available quickly after the onset of the widely predicted pandemic from an H5N1 strain of avian influenza, it might save scores of millions of lives worldwide. But that option is not feasible. Why can't a country that developed the atomic bomb (60 years ago) and the polio vaccine (50 years ago) and put a man on the moon (almost 40 years ago) now produce an appropriate vaccine? The answer is an unfortunate confluence of biology and public policy.