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The vaccine is a surprise benefit for kids

A shortage of both vaccines and antitoxins are limiting the effectiveness of response to diphtheria outbreak in Haiti, according to Louise Ivers, director of Harvard Global Health Institute. “Nobody wants to make it,” she added. There were fewer than 9,000 cases globally in 2021 and how impoverished communities facing diphtheria tend to be, Ivers further said.

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