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Cholera Vaccine Protects Whole Community, Even Unvaccinated
A cheap, oral vaccine — about the size of an "energy shot" — offers fresh hope for preventing cholera epidemics, like the one that has killed nearly 10,000 people in Haiti.
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I hope this works,poor nations suffer so much.
This is true for all vaccines, nothing special about this one.
I think the vaccine had a more notable effect on herd immunity than the researchers may have expected since cholera is endemic to the area and spreads through contaminated water.