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Child Vaccine 95 Percent Effective
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Immunizing children with Prevnar to guard against life-threatening meningitis, pneumonia and blood infections can also protect adults who have not been vaccinated, a new study shows. It's part of the series of vaccines your child gets before...
Pneumococcal Vaccine Reduces Serious Infections in Kids
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 5 (HealthDay News) -- The vaccine to prevent serious infections such as invasive pneumonia and meningitis has significantly reduced the rate of these illnesses, and has also curtailed the spread of antibiotic-resistant strains of pneumococcal disease in young children and adults.
Immunizing Children May Protect Adults
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Shaveta Bansal - AHN Contributor Boston, MA (AHN)-  A new study shows that immunizing children with Prevnar to guard against life-threatening meningitis, pneumonia and blood infections can also protect adults who have not been vaccinated. The logic behind the adult prevention is that...
Vaccine thwarts drug-resistant pneumonia, meningitis
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Reuters - Immunizing children with Prevnar to guard against life-threatening meningitis, pneumonia and blood infections can also protect adults who have not been vaccinated, a new study shows.
Pneumococcal Vaccine Reduces Serious Infections in Kids
YAHOO
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 5 (HealthDay News) -- The vaccine to prevent serious infections such as invasive pneumonia and meningitis has significantly reduced the rate of these illnesses, and has also curtailed the spread of antibiotic-resistant strains of pneumococcal disease in young children and adults.
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UK to vaccinate children against meningitis disease
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Reuters - Britain is to introduce a new routine vaccination for young children to help protect against meningitis, blood poisoning and pneumonia in a move it says will save lives and stop hundreds of children becoming ill each year.
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FDA Warns of Cochlear Implant Risks
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AP - Children with an early version of the cochlear implant face an increased risk of bacterial meningitis beyond just the first two years following implantation of the hearing devices, the Food and Drug Administration warned Monday.
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Kids', teens' immunization schedule updated
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Reuters - The 2006 Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule includes new recommendations for immunizing against meningitis, whooping cough (pertussis), influenza, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today.
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Kids', teens' immunization schedule updated
YAHOO
Reuters - The 2006 Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule includes new recommendations for immunizing against meningitis, whooping cough (pertussis), influenza, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today.
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