Article: A Botched Vaccine Campaign For Measles Killed 15 Children in South Sudan
Questions
After reading the article, answer the questions below (in your lab notebook).
- Vaccinating children against measles in South Sudan was not easy. Some challenges the campaign faced were:
- The article describes “what went wrong” during vaccine administration.
- Why is it a problem to use the same syringe?
- Why might healthcare workers in S. Sudan have reused syringes?
- What other challenges do you think could be involved in manufacturing and delivering the vaccines to developing countries? Imagine how these challenges are different compared to how we vaccinate children in the U.S.
- As a vaccine manufacturer, you are not in control of healthcare worker training. How could a vaccine manufacturer prevent this kind of thing from happening?
- What else would you need to know about the vaccine manufacturing process to understand this problem?
- What words in the article seem important to understanding this problem? List them in your notebook.
- BONUS: What makes you think this article is credible (believable?)