http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire/2002/01/08/current.asp

POLIO: Philippine President Orders Vaccinations After Three Cases Found

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered that 12 million Philippine children be vaccinated against polio following the discovery last year of three cases of the virus in the Philippines, Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said today.

The country declared itself free of polio a year ago, but the three new cases are from a "mutant strain," Dayrit said.  The Health Department is to vaccinate all children younger than 59 months on Feb. 2 to 8 and March 2 to 8 (Agence France-Presse, Jan. 8).

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