Lehti 13: Muu kirjoitus 13/1997 vsk 52 s. 1571

Waiting for "the big one" - a pneumococcal vaccine for all children everywhere

Ask anyone in the public health business which vaccine, among those likely to see the light of day in the next 10 years, would bring the greatest benefit to children, there's a good chance you'd be told - "a pneumococcal vaccine for kids of all ages and countries". There is certainly a need for such a vaccine. The only vaccine currently available is virtually ineffective in infants, who bear the brunt of pneumococcal disease in developing countries.

John Maurice

Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for many of the bacterial blood infections (bacteraemia), meningitis and pneumonia that claim more than one million young lives every year in the developing world. It is thus the most devastating single cause of child death in the world, followed by measles…

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