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Polio: Myanmar Plans Vaccination Campaign After Confirming First New Case In Three Years; India Fights Disease In Rural Areas
UNICEF said that Myanmar is planning a mass polio vaccination campaign of children under age five after the country confirmed its first case of the disease in three years, Agence France-Presse reports (2/21). "A seven-month-old infant was infected with vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) in December," according to UNICEF's office in the country, IRIN writes (2/17).
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