Three dozen children in the   hungesanghu VDC of Taplejung district, who were vaccinated against measles in the recently held immunization campaign, have fallen sick. The state of ten of them is reported to be critical. Some of the sick children have developed cough, fever, chest pain, shivering, loss of appetite and wounds in the mouth while some have even vomited blood, Nepal Samacharpatra reported today, quoting arents

of the sick children.

The children were vaccinated against the deadly disease during the first phase of the immunization campaign held on September 21. ?I don?t know what happened. But my daughter has become ill after

she was administered the vaccine,? the daily quoted one Ambika Nepali, a local guardian, as saying. Following the news, the Taplejung district hospital had dispatched a medical team to the VDC, which lies some 12 kilometers away from the district headquarters. Though the team distributed antipyretic drugs like Cetamol and Ketomox in the village, more children fell sick, the daily saidquoting another local named Durga Maskey.

nepalnews.com amt Sept 27 04