05-15-2014, 03:20 PM
kj4btkljv wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
Stacy Erholtz was out of conventional treatment options for blood cancer last June when she underwent an experimental trial at the Mayo Clinic that injected her with enough measles vaccine to inoculate 10 million people.
I didn't read the story, but... now 10 million people won't get the measles vaccination because Stacy took all of them.
Unless there's an endless supply, or it's really simple to manufacture, that doesn't seem socially responsible for 1 person to use all that medicine.
Jeff
That's an interesting point. It does not look like you can normally get just the measles vaccine. It appears to only come as part of the MMR vaccine.
The low price per dose of this vaccine is $37.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc...cid=cs_000
Maybe they made it special just for her.
In any case, this is a very pricey treatment. Who paid?