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Volume 5 Issue 3 - February 01, 2007
Injectable polio vaccine for places where people say no to polio drops
D.N.I.S.
News Network – In order to bring
under control the increasing number of polio cases in the high-risk areas of
Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has asked
international agencies to procure injectable polio
vaccine for pilot testing in these areas.
Earlier, the
India Advisory Group on Polio had recommended injections specifically for
A senior official of the ministry revealed that U.N.I.C.E.F. and W.H.O. were working on the modalities for getting the injectable vaccine and that officials were identifying the operational problems that could arise, since the concept would be totally new.
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