Hepatitis B Virus

UNICEF launches emergency vaccination campaign in Peru

Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 15th, 2003

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has launched an emergency vaccination campaign against hepatitis B for two ethnic groups in a remote region of the Peruvian Amazon, whose existence could be threatened by a prolonged outbreak of the disease.

Local leaders warned that both the Candoshis and the Sharpas, located in the High Amazon, Department of Loreto, could face extinction within 10-12 years if preventive action, especially among children, is not taken to staunch an outbreak of hepatitis B. The population of both groups in this region totals only about 3000.

UNICEF said the situation is dramatic, with 145 cases of hepatitis B reported among...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2003-10-15)

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