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Cuba suspends vaccination program after three children die.(Brief Article)

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2002 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cuba announced May 30, 2002 it had suspended its measles vaccination program after an "uncommon accident" with imported vaccine dosages that left three children dead and 42 others sick.

The three children died after receiving injections from "apparently contaminated" vials filled with the antimeasles vaccine manufactured in India.

"After the accident was known, it was decided a week ago to stop the vaccinations under way across the country," the government said in a communique carried in the Communist Party daily Granma.

Cuba said it had formed a commission to investigate.

The communique said the vaccines had been certified by and acquired through the World Health Organization. It provided no other details on Cuba's acquisition of the vaccines, nor where in Cuba the ...

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