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Article: Indonesia's anti-polio vaccination to go on smoothly
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 27, 2005
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Indonesia's anti-polio vaccination to go on smoothly
JAKARTA, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's highest Islamic body gave
support to the anti-polio vaccination that will be carried out next
week for 24 million children throughout the country, local media
reported on Saturday.
The support could dispel any doubts about the vaccines, which
rumors said could cause infertility and spread HIV/AIDS that might
deter people from bringing their children to immunization posts in
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has declared that the oral
polio vaccines to be given to children under age of five in the
second round of the immunization program on ...