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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:27 pm

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Vaccine delay putting millions of Japanese children at risk

A government decision to suspend Japanese encephalitis vaccinations two years ago has exposed millions of preschool children to the potentially deadly disease, health experts have warned.

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