New polio vaccination drive in September<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The municipality will launch its third polio
\nvaccination drive on Sept. 2 and on Oct. 7, the head of the
\nCommittee of National Immunization, Soenarjudardji, said
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
Soenarjudardji said that vaccinations would be carried out on
\n972,100 children under five years old. He said that the committee
\nhad also urged women between 15 and 39 years old to take Tetanus
\nToxoid (TT) vaccinations.<\/p>\n
The Oct. 7 campaign includes measles vaccinations for 121,954
\nchildren between nine months and 59 months old.<\/p>\n
The first vaccination drive in 1995 involved 1,902,827
\nchildren and the second in 1996 involved 1,979,397 children. In
\n1996, the committee targeted 202,953 women for TT vaccinations,
\nbut it recorded that 342,042 people had participated.<\/p>\n
TT and measles vaccinations were not conducted in the 1995
\ndrive.<\/p>\n
He said the committee would also set up a research team to
\nstudy polio, a disease which could incapacitate or even kill
\nchildren under 15 years old. The survey is called Surveillance
\nAFP.<\/p>\n
Governor Surjadi Soedirdja, who was also present at the
\ncommittee meeting, called on neighborhood administrators to
\nreport immediately to nearby clinics if there was ever a polio
\noutbreak.<\/p>\n
Surjadi said the municipality intended to fight the malignant
\npolio virus and minimize the number of its victims to one in
\nevery 10,000 births.<\/p>\n
Polio vaccinations are particularly targeted at children who
\nlive in susceptible areas.<\/p>\n
The city health agency said areas most susceptible to TT were
\nplaces where tetanus had occurred in the past three years, or
\nwhere only 80 percent of pregnant women had been vaccinated and
\nwhere births were delivered by midwives.<\/p>\n
An area is considered prone to TT when less than 80 percent of
\na population is vaccinated within the past four years, the agency
\nsaid. (10)<\/p>",
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