Immunization race starts in quake-hit Pakistan

Doctors in earthquake struck Kashmir have begun a campaign to immunize 800,000 children against potentially killer diseases, measles, tetanus, whooping cough, diptheria and polio before the bitter Himalayan winter bites.

Children living in remote mountain villages, cut off by landslides, were particularly vulnerable due to malnutrition because they have access to inadequate food supplies.

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Over 75,000 people, mostly in Pakistani Kashmir, were killed in the October8 quake, and aid agencies have voiced fears that the winter could bring a second wave of death through cold and disease unless survivors receive food and shelter.

Although around 3.3 million people were affected by the quake, another 500,000 are absolutely homeless.
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