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Egypt: Vaccine Shortage Hits Egypt's Children
14 September 2012
Cairo ? Tens of thousands of children are at risk because of a vaccine shortage in Egypt, paediatricians warn.
"The longer the government fails to immunize these children, the more vulnerable to disease they are," Eman Masoud, head of the Paediatrics Section at Abul Riesh University Hospital in Cairo, told IRIN. She said a delay of more than one or two months in obtaining vital vaccines like MMR, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, can put children's lives in peril...
Egypt: Vaccine Shortage Hits Egypt's Children
14 September 2012
Cairo ? Tens of thousands of children are at risk because of a vaccine shortage in Egypt, paediatricians warn.
"The longer the government fails to immunize these children, the more vulnerable to disease they are," Eman Masoud, head of the Paediatrics Section at Abul Riesh University Hospital in Cairo, told IRIN. She said a delay of more than one or two months in obtaining vital vaccines like MMR, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, can put children's lives in peril...