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Vaccine Hunters |
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Series for BBC 4 episodes x 25-minutes |
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Vaccines are one of the greatest medical successes of the last 100 years. Three
quarters of the 130 million babies born every year are now immunized against
diseases which in the past could well have killed them. Vaccines mean we live in
a much healthier world, where fewer children die or become economic burdens on
their families. For every dollar spent on vaccines, it's estimated $27 dollars
is saved in treatment. In "Vaccine Hunters" is a ground-breaking, four-part
series, made for BBC World which examines the challenges, the developments and
the science of modern vaccines. The series goes round the world to investigate
what is happening in the most up-to-date labs in the world to find out what
vaccines are being developed, particularly the holy grail - immunizing for
malaria and HIV. One of the next major developments scientists are working on is
to produce vaccines that could treat as well as prevent disease. New vaccines
are highly expensive to produce. So who is going to pay for the next generation
of life savers, including the cost of getting vaccines from the lab to the
field? Vaccines are also big money. One prediction is that the value of the
global vaccine market will go from being worth over £5 billion today, to around
£20 billion in ten years. A staggering increase! Thanks to immunization diseases
like tetanus, polio and TB, which were feared in the past, are fading from
memory. Many millions of people have been saved by vaccine programmes. But there
are millions more, many living in the most remote areas, who would benefit. It's
estimated 8-million people a year die from diseases simply because they don't
have access to the vaccine. "Vaccine Hunters" is an informed and comprehensive
look at the world of vaccines today. |
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Vaccine the Challenges
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The Vaccine Business,
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Vaccine From Discovery to Delivery,
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Vaccine the Final Frontier,
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