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October 25, 2002
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"96,000 Children Given Polio Vaccination"
Pakistan Newswire (www.paknews.com) (10/23/02)
In Pakistan's Gulshah-e-Iqbal Town, 96,000 children have been vaccinated against polio, but there are still 1.5 million children in the area who have not yet received the vaccine. Officials called on parents to have their children vaccinated against the disease, and they noted that 45 cases of polio have been recorded in Pakistan.
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