GAPS IN MEASLES VACCINATION: Health authorities adopt micro-planning
Bangladesh, July 25 -- The health authorities are now approaching micro-planning in mitigating the gap in the measles vaccination coverage after the recent vitamin A capsule campaign reached a higher number of children.
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The move comes as deaths of children continued to be reported even after three months of special vaccination. The authorities forecasted that the outbreak would come under complete control in one to two months as the half-baked vaccination campaign left many children unvaccinated.
Epidemiologists feared that about 10 million children remained out of the coverage.
Meanwhile, six more children died with symptoms consistent with measles in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Wednesday, bringing the country's c...
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