The only information I get on the drug is from the medical representative. The vaccine costs Rs.1300. We have seen the poor take shots for fevers though we know better. Similarly in US people may know better than to take the rabies shot when it is not necessary, but the medical representatives still push it in India. We think that doctors have the knowledge to help us make these decisions, but instead everyone operates by fear.
Doctors are afraid of malpractice, patient is afraid of death.
Within the third world an image of the first world lifestyle and a demand for it is created. Someone recently told me that in his vision of development, he would like everyone to have access to internet. I told him that the poor whom he wanted to help, might also wish that the first world had their kind of communicative abilities. I remembered walking 8 hours to a village in the Narmada Valley, and en route finding 200 people assembled under a tent. They had come from several states, to attend a funeral.