U.S. Lifts Adoption Ban on Babies From China
From Times Wire Reports
The U.S. has lifted a temporary ban on adoptions from a Chinese orphanage imposed because of a measles outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said.
All the children in the Zhuzhou Child Welfare Institute have been vaccinated against measles and the outbreak, which spread to the United States as parents brought their newly adopted children home, has ended, according to the CDC.
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