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December 27, 2002
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Myanmar Government Reports Progress in Polio-Free Certification Campaign" BBC Worldwide Monitoring (www.bbc.co.uk) (12/24/02)
Dr. Ye Myint of the Myanmar Health Department said that the country hopes to become certified free of polio next February, but the focus on polio immunization will continue to expand. The last reported case of the disease occurred in 2000, in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Myint noted that after Myanmar is declared polio-free, it plans to increase immunization coverage and expand surveillance activities, in an effort to maintain its certification.
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