Manila: Parents lined up from sunrise holding sleeping infants as the Philippines launched a campaign to vaccinate millions of children against polio, which has re-emerged nearly two decades after the nation’s last cases.
Years of falling vaccination rates, made worse by the botched rollout of a dengue vaccine, culminated in an outbreak of the preventable disease in September.
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