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September 11, 2014

A Ethiopian child about to get her measles vaccination.

In Ethiopia's Merawi province, nine-year-old Emabet is about to receive her measles vaccination. Public vaccination programs often involve conflicts between individual and public good: another factor to consider when implementing applied evolutionary principles.

Credit: Pete Lewis, UK Department for International Development; via Flickr: http://bit.ly/1CWbkAB


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