Child
Immunization Program in Honduras
Tegucigalpa - Honduras health authorities announced the
implementation of a massive vaccination campaign to begin coming
Monday, to prevent diarrhea diseases in infants less than 6 months
of age.
Some 180 000 children will be immunized during 2009 in Honduras,
health authorities sources say and add chronic diarrhea is the main
cause of death in children in this country.
This is the first time Honduras fights chronic diarrhea by using a
vaccine against the virus that causes it.
This virus causes intense vomiting and diarrhea, killing each year
almost 600 000 children in under developed nations.
The head of the childhood immunization program in Honduras Berenice
Molina confirmed the annual cost of the program amounts to 3.2
million dollars.
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