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  1. World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/en/ (including http://www.who.int/immunization_monitoring/diseases/en/, http://www.who.int/topics/cholera/en/, http://www.who.int/rabies/en/, http://www.who.int/immunization/policy/immunization_tables/en/)

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Duke, M.S., Madhavan, V.L. (2014). Vaccine-Preventable Diseases. In: Gupta, N., Nelson, B., Kasper, J., Hibberd, P. (eds) The MassGeneral Hospital for Children Handbook of Pediatric Global Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7918-5_21

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