Rank of Measles among diseases that kill the most children worldwide each year and can be prevented by vaccine.
$558,750
Cost of vaccinating the 745,000 children who died from the disease in 2001.
$1,000,000
Amount of money NIKE is paying 14-year-old soccer prodigy, Freddy Adu, to wear its shoes and clothing for one year.
I'm all in favor of vaccination, but this statistic is a bit misleading - the cost quoted is no doubt only the cost of vaccinating 745,000 children, but there are probably hundreds of millions of unvaccinated children, and there's no way to predict which of those will be the unlucky 745,000. Therefore to prevent those 745K deaths, maybe 745 million vaccinations would have to be done, raising the cost to 558 million. Still peanuts compared to certain wars we're currently fighting.
Posted by: Stan at May 5, 2004 10:40 AMGreat site. Good info.
Posted by: Sam at August 16, 2006 11:44 AM