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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Secretary of Health announced that 136 people, mostly children, have died of measles and 8,400 have fallen ill during an epidemic due in part to fears of recent vaccination.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III announced Monday that a mbadive vaccination campaign that began last week in Manila and four provincial regions could contain the epidemic by April. President Rodrigo Duterte warned Friday in a televised message of life-threatening complications and urged children to be vaccinated. The epidemic began in January.
Duque said that a government information campaign was helping to restore public confidence in its vaccination program, which had been tainted in 2017 by a dengue vaccine manufactured by French manufacturer Sanofi, accused of deaths of at least three children.
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