JAKARTA: Indonesia's first polio outbreak in a decade widened yesterday with two new cases reported, as the government kicked off a massive eradication campaign that aims to vaccinate 6.4 million children in one day.
The latest cases of the crippling disease in the Bogor and Lebak regions of West Java province bring the total number of children infected since the outbreak was detected last month to 16, said Yusharmen, head of the Health Ministry's epidemic surveillance office.
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