After being labeled by the WHO as the number one cause of vaccine-preventable death among children Maidenhead, 23 July 2008 - Ministries of Health in Cyprus, Hungary, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Republic of Ireland, Slovak Republic and Sweden announced their decisions to routinely immunize infants and young children against pneumococcal disease by adding PREVENARTM PCV7 to their national immunization programs.1 This announcement makes it 24 countries across the world that have now included Prevenar in their immunizations schedules 1 According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), pneumococcal disease is now ranked as the number one cause of vaccine-preventable death among children under 5, causing deaths in over 1 million children per year worldwide. Children are both major carriers and victims. In addition, adults of...
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