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August 21, 2002
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Burundi: Round Two of Polio Vaccination Begins in Two Provinces"
Africa News Service (www.allafrica.com ) (08/20/02)
Children younger than the age of six years are the targets of a
follow-up round of polio vaccinations in the six Burundian
provinces that border the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in
two provinces where the vaccination rate was under 80 percent in
2000. The follow-up vaccination campaign is due to fears that
the first campaign, in which 627,720 children were vaccinated,
was incomplete.
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