Eagerly awaiting large quantities of vaccine for a mass vaccination campaign, Foege and two CDC colleagues were then plunged into dealing with a sudden smallpox outbreak.
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The shortage of vaccine has been an issue in the presidential campaign.
There has been a campaign to make the single measles vaccine more freely available to parents concerned about the safety of the MMR.
The Saudi health minister went on television with his daughters, publicly getting their H1N1 flu shots, part of a campaign to alleviate fears about the vaccine.
Some critics were complaining long ago that the vaccine maker should have designed a direct-to-consumer campaign from the start.
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While thanking Dangote for the donation, Gough promised that the money will be used to procure 1.7 million doses of measles vaccine and will go a long way in supporting the measles campaign which the Nigerian government is championing through its Ministry of Health and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
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Robinson had predicted earlier that 120 million vaccine doses would most likely be available within a month after the campaign starts.
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He argues that even countries with 97% uptake of the vaccine still have pockets of unvaccinated people so some form of catch-up campaign would be needed.
Second, when the campaign began in earnest there were three main varieties of polio, each of which required a specially tailored vaccine.
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