PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry is in discussions with vaccine suppliers and concessionaires following the global shortage in the supply of vaccines for polio and acellular pertussis.
Its director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the shortage of vaccines containing inactivated polio vaccines (IPV) and acellular pertussis had occurred since June as there is only one supplier to meet the global demand.
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