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    Measles Control in Bolivia
    (2016) D. Rosario
    Historically the Plurinational State of Bolivia had one of the highest mortality rates of measles among children less than 5 years of age in Latin America, since the 1970s, there was a great effort to control the spread of measles [1]. This effort has included training and monitoring in combination with national immunization programs and other organizations such as the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization. Since 1979 in Bolivia to control the disease has been used strategy measles vaccination under the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) to all children 12 to 23 months are given a single-vivo attenu dose - vaccine ated [2], as part of routine childhood immunization.