"More alarmingly,WHO estimates if the combined effect of decreased financial and political commitment were to be sustained or continued, this could result to a return of a half a million measles deaths each year by 2012, wiping out the gains made over the past 18 years."
VOA: standard.2010.05.21
But thecombinedeffect of all this stuff is faint indeed, a playful obliqueness that seems somewhat pointless.