Vietnam Launches Effort To Give Measles Shots To 7.5 Million Kids
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Vietnam, with nearly 30,000 cases so far, has launched a vaccination program aimed at eradicating measles in the country before 2012
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Vietnam, with nearly 30,000 cases so far, has launched a vaccination program aimed at eradicating measles in the country before 2012. The campaign began with 8.1 million doses of measles vaccine in hand, donated by several UN-based organizations. The groups also are training health workers and mobilizing other gear to enable health-care workers to reach as many Vietnamese as possible. Vietnam's 7.5 million children under the age of five years are to be inoculated during the campaign. (Click here for more) "Vaccination Campaign Seeks To Eliminate Measles By 2012" - Thanhnien News (Vietnam) (10/8/10) |