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06/08/2017 / By Russel Davis

15 innocent victims dead after botched vaccine campaign, children as young as 12 years old caught administering vaccines

A botched measles vaccination campaign has left 15 young children dead and dozens more sickened in the rural town of Kapoeta in South Sudan early last month. Government inquiry found that unsanitary and unsafe vaccination practice, which saw children as young as 12 years old administering the vaccines, caused the deaths of children under the age […]

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