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                    [Title] => GMA orders polio immunization drive
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo has ordered a large-scale polio immunization drive amid a health emergency a year after the Philippines declared itself free of the virus, Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said yesterday.


Dayrit said the three separate cases monitored in Cagayan de Oro City and Cavite and Laguna provinces last year were from a "mutant strain" of the virus.

"We need to reach the 12 million target to eradicate the mutant polio strain," he added.
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While admitting that a polio virus epidemic threat has resulted in a current state of national emergency, Dayrit assured the public that there was no cause for panic as the government has already taken steps to address the matter.
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