November 2019: Pakistan kicks off typhoid campaign in Sindh province

On November 15, Pakistan kicked off a typhoid vaccination campaign aimed at 10 million children aged 9 months to 15 years. The two-week Sindh province campaign—a response to an extensively drug-resistant typhoid outbreak infecting 11,000 people in the past three years—lays the groundwork for incorporating the shot into routine vaccination by 2021. WHO

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