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UN To Launch Vaccine Program In Yemen After Deadly Measles Outbreak
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Children's Found (UNICEF) is to launch a measles vaccination program in Yemen, after an outbreak of the disease in the Middle East country has killed over 170 children and left more than 4,000 infected since mid-2011, a UN front man told news hounds here Friday.
"The near breakdown of Yemen's health services during the political crisis, and severe malnutrition amongst children under the age of five were the leading factors behind this outbreak," del Buey said. The vaccination campaign, which will be launched on Saturday, is aimed to reach over 8 million children under the age of five. Currently, more than 1.2 million children benefit from the polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccine and vitamin A supplement. In 2009, UNICEF released a report where Yemen was listed as one of the many countries to have severe cases of undernourishment in children. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-03-31 |
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