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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - More than a half million health workers and volunteers will fan out across Bangladesh on Sunday to immunize up to 24 million children under age 5 for polio, officials said.
The vaccinations are part of a three-phase campaign to eliminate polio from Bangladesh, S.M. Golam Kibria, a spokesman for the Health and Family Welfare Ministry, said Saturday.
In the first and second rounds of vaccinations, held April 16 and May 13 respectively, more than 20 million children were immunized, Kibria said. Bangladesh has a population of 144 million.
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