India, Dec. 18 -- India has a long tradition of making vaccines. There is a view that ancients knew about small pox inoculation. But it was the British rule in India that helped create an infrastructure to vaccinate people. There were vaccinators or "teekadars" who went from village to village to give small pox inoculation to people for a price. This history of vaccination of masses puts India in a unique position to choose the ideal one with least side effects. For the record, India makes 70 percent of the vaccines of the world and it is in high demand to help the world beat the pandemic that has destroyed global economy, infected millions and killed hundreds of thousands of people.
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