Global & Disaster Medicine

Protection against cholera from killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccines

July 19th, 2017

CholeraVaccine-2017:  Document

“….In conclusion, kOCVs are effective in reducing the risk of cholera. Although vaccination alone will probably not lead to elimination of cholera, it can provide an important stopgap while improved water, sanitation, and health-care infrastructure are provided to vulnerable populations. More work is needed to understand how and when to best use existing vaccines and to design new and more effective ones. However, the past three decades of evidence points towards kOCV being a safe, effective, and important tool to fight cholera…”

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 19th, 2017 at 2:32 am and is filed under Cholera .
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.   Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Comments are closed.

Categories

Recent Posts

Archives

Admin