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Confidence In Polio Vaccine Shaken By Disease Outbreak

October 2007 | Company News Alert

Public health officials in Nigeria are battling to restore confidence in the country's polio vaccination programme after it was revealed that the live-attenuated vaccine strain used has been responsible for cases in 69 children since

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