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Israel to launch polio vaccination drive

Published: 05 Aug 2013 - 02:24 am | Last Updated: 30 Jan 2022 - 04:27 pm

JERUSALEM: Israel tomorrow launches a mass campaign in the south of the country to vaccinate 200,000 children up to nine years old against polio, Health Minister Yael 

German said. 

“The decision to proceed with a vaccination campaign was taken after it was found that between 1,000 and 2,000 people living in southern Israel are carriers of the virus, without themselves being sick,” she told Channel 2 

television. AFP