Promise and Peril: Mass Vaccination in Colonial Africa
How a yellow fever vaccine in French West Africa may have killed thousands
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In 1944, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) mandated that all travelers arriving in regions where yellow fever was endemic should be inoculated against the disease. Two immunization options were on offer: a vaccine developed by the American Rockefeller Foundation, known as 17-D, or one with a ”French ...
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