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. 2001 Oct;2(10):862-8.
doi: 10.1093/embo-reports/kve215.

Vaccines as instruments of foreign policy. The new vaccines for tropical infectious diseases may have unanticipated uses beyond fighting diseases

P J Hotez  1
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Vaccines as instruments of foreign policy. The new vaccines for tropical infectious diseases may have unanticipated uses beyond fighting diseases

P J Hotez. EMBO Rep. 2001 Oct.
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Fig. 1. Relationship between infant mortality rates and armed conflict. Data from the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1997; Smith, 1997; UN Population Fund, 1999.
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Fig. 2. Relationship between under 5-year childhood mortality (per 1000) and Armed Conflict during the 1990s. Source data: www.worldbankgroup.org, www.overpopulation.com, Smith (1997) and Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (1997).
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