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Africa: Rotavirus Vaccine Making Headway in Africa
[IPS Africa: 2010-01-28]
New vaccination programmes against rotavirus are starting to have a positive impact, and could eventually prevent hundreds of thousands of child deaths a year, according to a new report."It is not widely known that pneumonia and diarrhoea are the two biggest child-killers globally, or that we now have new vaccines against the leading causes of both these disease," said Dr. Mickey Chopra, chief of health and associate director of programmes at the U.N. children"s agency (UNI. . .
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