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March 22, 2002

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"Hispaniola: Countries Launching Immunization Program"

Miami Herald (www.miami.com/herald) (03/21/02) P. A10

Following an outbreak of polio in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, health officials in the two nations plan to vaccinate 3 million children under the age of 10 against the disease.  From July 2000 to July 2001, 13 children in the Dominican Republic and eight in Haiti contracted polio from a  vaccine virus that had mutated, according to a recent report in Science.

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