Exempel på polio

• Similarly, and as explained in section 7, the oral polio vaccine can cause paralysis in a very small percentage of cases.

• Our analysis yields a cost-benefit rule for eradication, which we apply to the current initiative to eradicate polio.

• If the pathologies in question were tuberculosis or polio, we would not be claiming much success on the basis of the results of these campaigns.

• But polio eradication is more complicated than that.

• This suggests that the transmission of polio from vaccine recipients t o their contacts is not extensive.

• Although the smallpox virus is much larger than polio, the technical feasibility of artificially synthesizing smallpox is perhaps dubious.

• We find that polio eradication would be economically desirable - provided, that is, that eradiation of this disease were technically feasible.

• We derive a cost-benefit rule for optimal eradication, and demonstrate its utility by applying it to the current global initiative to eradicate polio.

• This program has made vaccines against common childhood infections such as measles and polio available to countries where local governmental resources simply cannot do so.

• Investigators also arranged for stool specimen collection and shipment to the national polio laboratory network for poliovirus detection and identification.

• We note that money spent on polio eradication has an opportunity cost.

• Our analysis is unable to determine whether health outcomes would improve if the money spent on polio eradication was spent instead on other health interventions.

• Given this decision, rich countries will not benefit substantially from polio eradication.

• To know whether polio eradication is optimal, we need to ask if conditions like (21) and (23) hold for polio.

• It is likely that this type of vaccine will assume a greater prominence in the future as the worldwide eradication of polio approaches.