YANGON, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- A total of 7.4 million children under five years of age in Myanmar will be given polio vaccination in the first two months of this year as a follow-up precaution measure against polio comeback in 2007, the local 7-Day News reported Wednesday.

    With the help of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the polio vaccination campaign will be launched for two rounds -- the first from Jan. 10 to 12, while the second from Feb. 7 to 9, the report said.

    In 2007, A total of 2.5 million children under five in the country were vaccinated against polio under a specially expanded program on immunization following the detection of fresh wild polio virus in a two-and-a-half-year-old boy in Maungtaw township, western coastal Rakhine state, in April of the year.

    A total of 10 children in the Maungtaw township and one in Bhuthitaung township were infected with the wild polio virus, then report said.

    The wild polio virus, spread from neighboring Bangladesh, also infected four others in Yangon division's Kayan, Bago division's Phyu, Kayin state's Pha-an and Mon state's Chaungsone, according to the report.

    Since then, long-term cooperation has been made between Myanmarand Bangladesh, which borders Myannmar's Maungtaw.

    Myanmar started anti-polio efforts in 1996, enjoying a polio-free country status in 2003. Nevertheless, Myanmar continued to work for the eradication of the disease after 2003.

    The polio vaccination campaign also includes vaccination against measles, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough and ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) diseases.