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VOA标准英语2009年-WHO to Increase Immunizations in Sub-S

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VOA标准英语2012--Immunization Week Highlights Efforts to Save Lives Worldwide

Immunization Week Highlights Efforts to Save Lives Worldwide Haiti, Nigeria, Ghana -- 180 countries in all -- stepped up their immunization drives against deadly childhood infections to mark World Immunization Week. The GAVI Alliance -- a Geneva base

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VOA标准英语2012--New Immunization Effort Launched

New Immunization Effort Launched Over the next three months, about 50 million young people in seven African countries will be vaccinated against meningitis. Its part of larger campaign to eliminate the disease in 26 at-risk countries. Meningitis is a

VOA标准英语2010年-Polio Spreads in Central Africa

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VOA标准英语2013--Researchers: Immunization Efforts Falling Short

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Global Immunization: Despite Successes, Much More To Do Measles is one of the leading causes of childhood deaths worldwide. Not only does measles kill, but it can leave children blind, deaf or developmentally disabled, even while they are still in th

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2006年VOA标准英语-Sudan's Polio Immunization Campaign at Risk

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 05 November 2006 Sudanese Red Crescent employee vaccinates a boy against polio in Kalma Camp near southern Darfur (File photo) The ministries of health in both northern and southern Sudan, backed by the U.N. children's fund, t

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India remains one of the few countries where polio has not been eradicated. Most of the world's new cases are reported in the subcontinent. While the total number of cases dropped in India last year,that one variant of the virus is actually on the in