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Ministry says polio vaccination is safe

A child receives the polio vaccine in Kisumu in 2017. Official says oral immunisation not the cause of high temperatures in children. [File, Standard]

An outbreak of influenza has been blamed for the fever in some of the children vaccinated against polio.

The Ministry of Health's head of the Health Promotion Unit, Sammy Mahugu, said the vaccine against polio type two did not cause high body temperatures.

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