-
What Shapes Your Health—What You Can DoAwake!—1995 | April 8
-
-
One of them may have. Which one? EPI (Expanded Program on Immunization).
“The vaccinator has replaced the postman as the most familiar visitor to home and hamlet,” notes a report on EPI. During the last decade, vaccination needles were felt from the Amazon to the Himalayas, and by 1990, WHO reported, 80 percent of the world’s infants had been inoculated against six killer diseases.a Yearly, EPI is saving the lives of over three million children. Another 450,000 who might have been crippled can walk, run, and play.
-
-
What Shapes Your Health—What You Can DoAwake!—1995 | April 8
-
-
a The six are diphtheria, measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough. WHO recommends that hepatitis B, which kills many more people than AIDS now kills, also be included in immunization programs.
-