New infections in the new world
... to ensure regular mass-scale testing is needed. The efficiency of testing is in direct proportion to the prevalence of the disease in the population. For this reason, inoculations remain, in the long term, the most efficient method to control these infections as well. There are already vaccines against some of them (hepatitis B, chickenpox and human papilloma virus, for example), but attempts to develop vaccines against many other microbes have been unsuccessful so far. Anti-vaccinationism, alternative medicine and other types of quackery ...
04.10.2012