TY - JOUR
T1 - INEFFECTIVENESS OF CHOLERA VACCINATION AS AN EPIDEMIC CONTROL MEASURE
AU - Sommer, Alfred
AU - Mosley, Wiley H.
N1 - Funding Information:
These studies were supported in part by research agreement 196802 between the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Labora- tory, Dacca, East Pakistan (now Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca, Bangladesh).
PY - 1973/6/2
Y1 - 1973/6/2
N2 - Analysis of the efficacy of cholera vaccines, the public-health structure of Bangladesh, and the epidemiology of cholera in rural Bengal indicates that mass vaccination programmes are an ineffective public-health measure. Under field conditions, vaccinating 5000 individual village contacts of active cases requires a vaccinator to work full-time for 4 months, costs over $300, and prevents, at best, only 1 out of every 20 cases.
AB - Analysis of the efficacy of cholera vaccines, the public-health structure of Bangladesh, and the epidemiology of cholera in rural Bengal indicates that mass vaccination programmes are an ineffective public-health measure. Under field conditions, vaccinating 5000 individual village contacts of active cases requires a vaccinator to work full-time for 4 months, costs over $300, and prevents, at best, only 1 out of every 20 cases.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0015912412&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=0015912412&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(73)90540-0
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(73)90540-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 4122575
AN - SCOPUS:0015912412
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 301
SP - 1232
EP - 1235
JO - The Lancet
JF - The Lancet
IS - 7814
ER -