"Angola: Over 80,000 People Vaccinated Against Measles and Tetanus"
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"Angola: Over 80,000 People Vaccinated Against
Measles and Tetanus" Africa News Service (www.allafrica.com)
(11/27/02)
In the Uige province of Angola,
more than 80,000 people received vaccinations against measles and tetanus in the
first 10 months of 2002, according to a source from the Extended Programme of
Vaccination. The immunizations consisted of measles shots for 38,000 children
and tetanus shots for 43,000 pregnant women and young girls.
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