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Modern vaccines date back to British doctor Edward Jenner's 1796 work immunizing children using pus from cowpox blisters.
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The Sabin vaccine carried a higher risk of serious side effects, but was more effective at immunizing large populations.
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It is unclear how immunizing gatekeeper professionals, as the majority has effectively done, actually incentivizes corporate principals to better monitor insider agents.
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Perhaps the most promising is Gardasil, a vaccine that would prevent cervical cancer by immunizing women against the human papilloma virus.
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Though their primary task of immunizing a child takes only a moment, the impact of their work will be felt for generations.
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The foundation has a precise list of goals, among them eradicating polio worldwide, immunizing children in poor countries and putting computers in libraries.
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Cesarean section, however, bypasses this immunizing opportunity, and may leave newborns more vulnerable to certain infections since their immune systems are still catching up.
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And so that may be a downside, that maybe now that we're immunizing everybody, adults will not be exposed to children with the disease, and therefore are at greater risk for shingles.
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The idea of results-based finance is simple: instead of financing programs aimed at achieving your goal (whether lighting homes or immunizing children), pay a financial reward for the achievement of the goal and let the market find the best way to achieve it.
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