As people all over the world confront the COVID-19 pandemic, many are seeing for the first time how critical vaccines can be in bringing deadly disease outbreaks under control. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams witness what happens to communities when vaccines are out of reach—from measles epidemics in remote regions of Democratic Republic of Congo, to cholera outbreaks in war-torn Yemen, to a rare outbreak of diphtheria in refugee camps for Rohingya people in Bangladesh. We’ve learned some important lessons about how to use vaccines and other tools to end an epidemic.
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