Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization
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Prevention of measles poses different problems in developed and developing countries. In developed countries the risk of late complications following the use of live vaccine should be further evaluated; additional attempst might also be made to create new types of inactivated vaccine. In developing countries the introduction of live measles vaccine should be given high priority. The main problems in developing areas appear to be ones relating to vaccine stability, distribution, and cost.
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Bull Pan Am Health Organ · Jan 1976
Joint air pollution sampling program in twin cities on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua) and El Paso (Texas), two cities on the U. S.-Mexico border, form a single environmental system in which the same natural resources, especially air and water, are shared. It also constitutes a single metropolitan area which is characterized by high rates of pipulation growth, economic development, and urban expansion, all these factors mitigating against air quality. ⋯ Federal primary standards. The program should be expanded to include the study of other pollutants and a joint inventory of emissions. In this way criteria on air quality may be established and joint plans of action and strategies drawn up for the control of air pollution in this important area.