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SUBMITTER: Scobie HM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4047725 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20140407 6
After a category 4 cyclone that caused extensive population displacement and damage to water and sanitation infrastructure in Fiji in March 2010, a typhoid vaccination campaign was conducted as part of the post-disaster response. During June-December 2010, 64,015 doses of typhoid Vi polysaccharide vaccine were administered to persons ≥ 2 years of age, primarily in cyclone-affected areas that were typhoid endemic. Annual typhoid fever incidence decreased during the post-campaign year (2011) relat ...[more]