EPISODE · Mar 10, 2022 · 32 MIN
17. Breakbone Fever
from The Politics of Pandemics · host DG
In the Philippines, a botched vaccine rollout for dengue destroyed confidence in all vaccines when it was suspected that it make dengue worse for some people, not safer. And then, the worldwide measles pandemic in 2019 occurred. We explore how the political scandal surrounding Dengvaxia affected the country's fight measles and other diseases. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IxHbBf6lx5Z9O8bNQWVxXobj6-t8vjWtBr71HzmWeB0/edit?usp=sharing
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In the Philippines, a botched vaccine rollout for dengue destroyed confidence in all vaccines when it was suspected that it make dengue worse for some people, not safer. And then, the worldwide measles pandemic in 2019 occurred. We explore how the political scandal surrounding Dengvaxia affected the country's fight measles and other diseases. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IxHbBf6lx5Z9O8bNQWVxXobj6-t8vjWtBr71HzmWeB0/edit?usp=sharing
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