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As is standard practice, we asked all women of childbearing age to use effective contraception during our trials, and then tested them before each vaccination to make sure that they were not pregnant. We therefore did not expect any pregnancies in our trial participants, and did not expect to be able to get any information from our trial about the effects of the vaccine on fertility. However, because real life doesn’t always go as planned, there have been quite a few pregnancies during the trials. These have been evenly split between the vaccine group and the placebo group. If the vaccine really did affect fertility, we would have seen fewer pregnancies in the vaccine group. The claim that vaccines would affect fertility worried many people, but it is completely false.
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Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green
“Where did you find the whipped cream?” he asked. “You had milk, I had science,” said Jack. “It’s amazing how much of culinary achievement can be summarized by that sentence.
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By the mid 20th c. the term endemic became more oppositional to the term epidemic, and experts in the Global North considered cholera, typhoid, and plague to be diseases endemic to the Global South- out of sight, out of worry. But these diseases, continue to ravage human pops
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