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Vaccine Harvest: Cholera fighter could be easy to swallow

An edible vaccine, made by genetically engineering rice, safeguards mice against the toxin produced by cholera bacteria.

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   Using data from Bangladesh, Ira Longini and colleagues develop a mathematical model predicting that oral vaccination of 50 percent to 70 percent of the population could control cholera transmission in an endemic region.
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