Myanmar is to vaccinate a total of more than 7 million children against measles under a measles control strategic plan for 2007, according to the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar.Children aged between nine months and five years will be vaccinated under a campaign to be launched in three phases, the first in townships of Yangon and Mandalay divisions in next January, the second in Tanintharyi and upper Sagaing divisions in next March and the third in Ayeyawaddy, Magway, Bago and lower Sagaing divisions in next May with each phase taking two weeks, the report said.
Myanmar has launched immunization programs against measles every year since 1987.
