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Vaccination Week in the Americas officially ends today. Now in its sixth year, the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) coordinated activity has pushed not only for infant immunization, but for older children and adults as well, to receive vaccines that would prevent them from contracting certain diseases. This year there was a new vaccine to add to the list, the HPV vaccine, which has created a huge controversy in the developed world……


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