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Published online 16 January 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040112-13
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Polio eradication plan agreed
Emergency meeting announces mass immunization campaign.
The planet could become polio-free by the end of the year, under plans outlined by health ministers from the six remaining polio-endemic countries at an emergency meeting this Thursday. Some 250 million children are to be vaccinated this year in a series of massive immunization campaigns.
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