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First Country to Introduce Typhoid vaccine - Pakistan
November 21 , 2019
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- Pakistan became the first country in the world to introduce the World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its routine immunization programme.
- It is the first typhoid vaccine that can be given to children as young as 6 months of age and confers longer term protection against typhoid.
- Pakistan launched the campaign in Sindh Province.
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