"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Tetanus Africanus: Tetanus (aka lockjaw) is still a problem in much of Africa. The vaccine needed to prevent it has to be refrigerated and giving it requires someone who knows how to give shots, both of which are lacking in many areas. But, now, for the first time, they are trying a single-dose pre-loaded autoinoculator. The drug company is "donating" the device and vaccine (i.e. conducting human trials), but still, it has to be better than the alternative of no shots at all. (How can they be expected to combat AIDS when they haven't yet been able to conquer something as easily combatted as tetanus?) posted by Sydney on
7/29/2002 06:06:00 AM
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