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July 28, 2003

 

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

 

“Northeast India Launches Mass Immunization to Prevent Polio Outbreak”

Agence France Presse (www.afp.com/english/home) (07/27/03)

 

In India’s Assam and Meghalaya states, 600,000 children under the age of five are the target of a mass polio immunization campaign following the diagnosis of a local child with wild polio last month.  India recorded 1,556 cases of polio in 2002, or 81 percent of the worldwide cases of the disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  The CDC says that lax immunization and poor sanitation are to blame for the country’s high rate of polio infection.  UNICEF reports that 30 percent of Indian children under the age of one year have not been immunized against polio.

 

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