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Science 27 November 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5394, p. 1627
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5394.1627
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SCIENCE AND BUSINESS:
Embargo Impedes Scientific Headway

Jocelyn Kaiser

A tightening of the U.S. embargo in 1992 and restrictions on travel between the countries have hindered science, forcing Cuban scientists to buy most of their supplies from Europe and thereby adding delays and increasing costs, especially for items that are made only in the United States. Curbs on travel between the countries isolate Cuban scientists from colleagues and conferences in the United States. The embargo has also impeded attempts to license Cuba's vaccine against group B meningococcal meningitis, the only one on the market.

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