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Correspondence
An initiative offering free pneumococcal vaccination to victims of the Great East Japan earthquake
  1. Toshio Naito
  1. Correspondence to Dr Toshio Naito, Department of General Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Hongo2-1-1, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan; naito{at}juntendo.ac.jp

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203633

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    The Pacific coastline of eastern Japan was severely affected by the massive tsunami that struck on 11 March 2011. The article by Daito et al,1 published in Thorax reported a marked increase in the incidence of pneumonia during the disaster. I carried out surveys and relief activities in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, from the sixth day after the earthquake as a member of the first advance party of the Primary Care for All Team (PCAT) dispatched by the Japan Primary Care Association Earthquake Relief Project. Given the conditions in the evacuation …

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