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6METING English from bbclearningenglish.com Hello I'm Rob, welcome to 6 Minute English and with me in the studio today is Neil.
Hello Rob.
Today we're going to talk about the cost of keeping people healthy.
The price of life-saving vaccines has escalated, it's gone up and some of the world's poorer countries are struggling to immunise children.
To immunise, in other words, to prevent children from catching diseases.
Yes, the organisation Medicine San Frontea is criticising the pharmaceutical companies which produce the vaccines.
Medicine San Frontea is a well-known charity.
A charity is an organisation set up to help and raise money for people in need.
We're going to talk about the cost of vaccines and you'll learn some words you can use to discuss the topic yourself or to follow the news.
But first a question, Neil?
Yes.
The first laboratory developed a vaccine was produced in 1879.
The vaccine was against an animal disease called chicken cholera.
Who was the scientist behind it?
Was it A.
Alexander Fleming?
B.
Albert Sabin?