International (Asia)
Cambodia Launches Campaign To Eradicate Polio
Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 11th, 1996
While 30,000 of the country's 130,000 disabled people are victims of land mine accidents, up to 60,000 have been struck by polio. A comprehensive program launched in 1995 aims to eradicate the scourge. In February 1996 more than 40,000 volunteers fanned out across the country in the second inoculation campaign.
"The last place where there is a real serious problem in the region is here in Cambodia and the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam," said David Bassett, technical...
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