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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 - 02:00
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Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
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228 [3]
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A limited measles immunisation campaign has been launched in Nairobi following an outbreak of the disease in a suburb of the capital city, health authorities said on Friday. The campaign targets children under the age of five and is confined within Eastleigh, a downmarket suburb east of the city centre with a considerable number of refugees from Somalia, said an official in the disease management unit of the ministry of health who asked not to be named.

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Country: 
Kenya [6]

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