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January 27, 2003
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Aventis Donates Polio Vaccines to Children of Sudan"
New Straits Times (Malaysia) (www.nstpi.com.my) (01/27/03)
As part of the Rotary Club of Bandar Sunway's world community service program, drug maker Aventis Pasteur has donated enough oral polio vaccine to help 50,000 Sudanese children between the ages of five months and two years. "Immunization is imperative to fight diseases like polio, and we are pleased that Bandar Sunway Rotary Club had approached us to assist in fighting polio in Sudan," said Aventis Pasteur's James Pereira.
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