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How vaccines and research can help prevent cholera outbreaks
The current cholera pandemic has lasted six decades and killed millions. Professor Jan Holmgren, who developed the world’s first effective oral cholera vaccine, tells us how a new generation of vaccines could help control outbreaks and protect people’s health.