A mass vaccination program has been launched in Philippine communities that were devastated by Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) to protect children against measles and polio, UN agencies said on Wednesday.
The campaign began this week with 30,000 children being vaccinated in Tacloban city, one of the places hardest hit when Yolanda claimed thousands of lives nearly three weeks ago, the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF and World Health Organization said.
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