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North Korea eliminates rubella virus through vaccination campaign: WHO

Mass immunization program inoculated some 6 million people against disease that causes severe birth defects
Joe Smith November 1, 2023
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North Korea eliminates rubella virus through vaccination campaign: WHO
A mother and grandmother leave a maternity hospital in Pyongyang in Sept. 2008 | Image: Eric Lafforgue

North Korea has eliminated the rubella virus, which can cause serious birth defects, after carrying out a wide-ranging childhood immunization campaign, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.

The DPRK introduced the measles-rubella vaccine “into standard childhood immunization programs” in Nov. 2019 following an earlier campaign that successfully targeted nine month to 15-year-old children and 16 to 18-year-old women, the WHO said in a statement.

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