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Most of the currently available vaccines against a variety of infectious diseases were developed and tested in European or North American countries. With the popularization of routine infant and child immunization under the expanded and universal immunization programs of the World Health Organization, vaccines against tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus are increasingly being used in all nations of the world. Many national immunization programs have used or are currently using other vaccines as well, such as those against mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, meningococcal diseases. Hemophilus influenzae disease, Japanese encephalitis, and typhoid fever.
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John, T.J. (1989). Geographic Variation in Vaccine Efficacy: The Polio Experience. In: Talwar, G.P. (eds) Progress in Vaccinology. Progress in Vaccinology, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3508-8_8
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