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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2020 — General Studies · Question 195 of 200

Q195
Current Affairs & General KnowledgeGovernment Schemes & Initiatives
India-made typhoid vaccine, approved by WHO, was first introduced in which country?
  1. a.Nepal
  2. b.Bangladesh
  3. c.Myanmar
  4. d.Pakistan

Answer: (D) Pakistan

Answer as of 2020 — this may have changed since.

Pakistan's Sindh province ran an early large-scale rollout of the WHO-prequalified, India-made typhoid conjugate vaccine (Typbar-TCV) in 2019, following an outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid.

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