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Ukraine entered the top-8 countries with the lowest level of vaccination of children

Ukraine entered the top-8 countries with the lowest level of vaccination of children
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This was reported by the press service of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

According to the source, in 2016, about 13 million babies were not protected against dangerous infections.

Thus, coverage of vaccination of children against diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis was at least 50%.

The list of these countries includes Ukraine, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Somalia, Southern Sudan and Syria.

It is also reported that almost one in 10 babies (about 12.9 million) were not immunized. In addition, about 6.6 children after the first dose of the vaccine did not complete the full vaccination phase.

Naplumnim, as previously reported, "URA-Inform", this week in Ukraine there will be a serum against botulism. The report says that there is no vaccine against botulism, but there is a serum. This serum in Ukraine can not be bought legally, so she was asked how humanitarian aid in Europe.

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