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MHLW Panel Backs Inclusion of Rotavirus Vaccines to Public Immunization Program
A health ministry panel on September 13 agreed to recommended the addition of rotavirus vaccines to Japan’s publicly funded immunization program, which would come “as early as in the next fiscal year (through March 2021),” according to a regulatory official.…
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