Sentence examples for large scale immunization campaign from inspiring English sources

1.7 million children to be vaccinated in Abidjan amidst violence ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire, 7 March 2011 – Over 1.7 million children are expected to be vaccinated against measles and other diseases in a large scale immunization campaign to be conducted from 7 to 11 March in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Syrian officials and authorities in neighboring Lebanon have embarked on large-scale immunization campaigns, but many people are on the move, and vast swaths of the country are lawless battle zones.

The approach presented could serve as a model for future active postlicensure vaccine safety monitoring associated with large-scale immunization campaigns in low-income countries.

The best way to stop the virus Experts believe large-scale immunization campaigns like this are the only way to stop the progress of the polio virus.

Epidemiologists agree that large-scale immunization campaigns like this one in Ethiopia are the only way to stop the progression of the deadly virus.

Through increased routine immunization coverage and large-scale immunization campaigns, sub-Saharan Africa made the most progress with an 85 per cent drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2010, according to a new study published in today's Lancet.

Vaccinating nearly 700 million children against measles, through large-scale immunization campaigns and increased routine immunization coverage, has prevented an estimated 4.3 million measles deaths in less than a decade.

Trials of national vaccination days led to large-scale immunization campaigns in countries such as Turkey, and to 'days of tranquillity' – ceasefires in war-affected countries for the sole purpose of vaccinating children.

Risk of further polio outbreak remains unless a full-scale immunization campaign begins immediately to stop the transmission of the polio virus.

They expected to repeat the success of large-scale immunization programs that nearly eliminated polio from Africa by 2003.

One of the paradoxes of medicine is that the first large-scale immunization against a viral disease was instituted and established long before viruses were discovered.