The vaccine is not cheap. But Hameed Nuru says the herders get together to sell a bull and use the money to vaccinate all their animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

The Saudis have a campaign to vaccinate health workers.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

He says it costs less than $1.00 to vaccinate a child against measles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"We will get some vaccine at the beginning of the fall we won't be able to vaccinate everybody initially, so we'll be identifying priority groups, but because we had advance contracts for vaccine we'll get very big supplies through the fall and winter,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Vaccination is a life or death question for poor people and if you can vaccinate a child to prevent a disease from happening it is a lot more cost effective than it is to treat that disease afterwards."

VOA: special.2010.03.29

But that decision as to whether we should vaccinate the public has not been made.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30