The health ministry has given the green light for a newly developed vaccine to be used in publicly funded vaccinations, suspended since 2005, to prevent Japanese encephalitis.
The ministry has called on medical institutions and municipal governments nationwide to begin preparations to inoculate people aged between 3 and 7 twice with the new vaccine, which is thought to have less risk of side effects than previous vaccines.
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