"Seven Children Die From Measles in Southern Philippine Village"
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"Seven Children Die From Measles in Southern
Philippine Village" Deutsche Presse Agentur (www.dpa.de)
(07/03/02)
The Philippine village of San Jose
in General Santos City has experienced an
outbreak of measles that has taken the lives of seven children and hospitalized
14 others. The children who died ranged in age from five years to nine years
old and were not immunized against the disease during a recent measles
vaccination campaign, according to city health officer Fidel Penamante. The
door-to-door vaccination campaign was supposed to vaccinate all children between
the ages of nine months to five years, and it is unclear how some children
escaped vaccination.
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