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Indonesia fails to win public over to polio vaccine

By Shawn Donnan

Published: August 30 2005 20:59 | Last updated: August 30 2005 20:59

Parents' safety fears are hampering the drive to immunise 24m children, says Shawn DonnanCrowded in by television cameras and star-struck health workers, Indonesian television star Ferry Salim peered through fashionable sunglasses at a clutch of mothers with toddlers in arms.

“Has he been done yet? Already? . . . Her? . . . Him? . . . No? OK, bring him over,” the presenter said forcefully.

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