Future looks bright as drug companies win virus-vaccine battle
Given the current anxieties around Covid-19, both for our health and our economies, speed is now the key, writes Luke O'Neill
'Vaccines are the biggest contribution to medicine, because they protect millions of people from getting nasty infectious diseases - diseases like measles, polio, diphtheria, cholera and typhoid, which terrified our ancestors'
Luke O'Neill
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