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Largest cholera vaccination program ever planned for Haiti
06.07.2016 10:14 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The largest vaccination program «ever done» to fight cholera in Haiti, is due to begin soon, initially targeting 750,000 in the centre of the Caribbean island nation, UN Radio says referring to Jean-Luc Poncelet, the WHO (World Health Organization) representative in Haiti, report.
As to Poncelet, the WHO hoped to complete the first phase of mass vaccination «by the end of the year».
It is to be reminded, 10 months after the 2010 earthquake, cholera appeared there for the first time in nearly a century.
An independent panel of experts confirmed that the source of the outbreak was caused by a bacteria introduced into Haiti «as a result of human activity».
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