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"After mosquito spraying programs were cut, we've seen a return of malaria, which the country has kept under control for the past four decades. New HIV infections have jumped more than 200 percent," he noted.

"Greece is an example of perhaps the worst case of austerity leading to public health disasters," Mr. Stuckler explained in a telephone interview.

HIV spiked because government needle exchange programs ran out of clean syringes for heroin addicts. By Stuckler's estimate, the average Greek junkie requires 200 clean needles in a given year. "But now they're only getting three a year each," Stuckler said.

Rogobo, you make a welcome and important point. But reality is that this topic seems to give rise to insult because it has high stakes (precious cargo on board! kids! death and disease). If you think it's hard to hear a message while people are shouting insults, what's it like being deaf because your mummy got rubella while pregnant? I would put it like this: Notion 1: A world without effective serious infection vaccine is uglier and less pleasant than the alternative (polio, anyone?).  Notion 2: At a population level, vaccines improve outcomes more than they harm them.  Notion 3: At a population level, improved outcomes and the prospect of eradication is dependent on high individual participation. Notion 4: At an individual level, there is some risk associated with vaccination. Notion 5: Healthy people not taking the risks of vaccination are: (a) free riding on those who are taking the risks; (b) reducing the prospect of eradication; (c) increasing the prospect of passing infection to those medically incapable of taking the risk Notion 6: Individual liberty and freedom to choose might sometimes be trumped by requirements of public welfare Happy to have any of those notions challenged and discussed

Health officials in Oklahoma are notifying 57 patients who tested positive for hepatitis C and three patients who tested positive for hepatitis B after visiting oral surgeon W. Scott Harrington's office in Tulsa and a city suburb, according to a joint statement issued Wednesday by the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the Tulsa Health Department.

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Dentist's former patient: How could you? "This is a complex investigation," state epidemiologist Kristy Bradley said in the statement. "The next phase will include more in-depth interviews of persons who test positive to determine the likelihood that their exposure is associated with their dental surgical procedure at the Harrington practice. We will certainly continue to keep the public informed as we learn more." Mor