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Would cholera vaccines have helped in Haiti?
Three leading researchers today called for the United States to create a national stockpile of cholera vaccines that could be quickly deployed to outbreaks worldwide, In an published in this week’s issue of Nature. I’ve excerpted the relevant part in full below, which describes how those working in the field remain highly sceptical of the utility of cholera vaccine in an outbreak situation.
See below the fold for the full excerpt:
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