Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Â Gulu District Health Department has immunized 19,300 children below the age of five years against measles-rubella. The six days immunization drive was conducted in primary and nursery schools, and health facilities in the 11 sub-counties of the district. Dr. Kenneth Cana, the Gulu District Health …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENTÂ |Â Â Preliminary results from both the Uganda Virus Research Institute and the World Health Organization have ruled out the measles/Rubella Vaccine as the cause of death for a young boy who died after the Mass Vaccination held in October. The five-year-old boy was among millions of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health is investigating three cases of adverse immunization reactions following the recent Measles/Rubella immunization campaign. The cases, all from the same family, were immunized at a community vaccination post located in Kalagi.  But one of them passed away yesterday at the pediatric …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENTÂ | Parents have expressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which the government has handled the ongoing Measles-Rubella mass vaccination campaign that started yesterday, across the country. The five-day campaign is supposed to provide a booster dose for measles and introduce the rubella vaccine among children …
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