The Effectiveness of Means of Controlling Communicable Diseases
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2009
Abstract
Most communicable diseases are caused by infectious agents that are not visible to the naked eye, which led earlier societies to believe in miasmas and control by quarantine. Although microscopes revealed the agents in the eighteenth century, they were not associated with disease syndromes until the late nineteeth century. Today, vaccines are the most cost-effective means of control.
- Type
- Special Section: Vaccines and Public Health: Assessing Technologies and Public Policies
- Information
- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 14 - 20
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994
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