Polio Vaccination Drive Opens in Brazil
From Reuters
SAO PAULO, Brazil —
An army of half a million volunteers worked Saturday to vaccinate nearly 20 million Brazilian children against polio.
In a step toward its goal of eradicating the disease by 1990, the Health Ministry hopes to vaccinate 90% of the nation’s 19.5 million children up to age 5.
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