A plaintiff who suffered arm and shoulder injuries as a result of what she says was a pneumococcal vaccination gone awry has sued the pharmacy she believes is responsible, but the pharmacy’s counsel countered a number of statutes bar her claims...
Read morePrevnar Vaccine Is Causing Superbug Ear Infections A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause ear infections. On Monday, doctors...
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Vaccine for Elderly Doesn’t Work A randomised placebo-controlled trial of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine was conducted in about 84 500 adults aged 65 years and older, with no particular risk factors. Four years on average after...
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Abstract BACKGROUND: Following the introduction of a heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in the Netherlands in 2006, the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) declined significantly. Since then a shift towards non-vaccine...
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In France, despite a high rate of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine coverage, the number of cases of pneumococcal meningitis in children did not decline significantly between 2001–2002 (n = 264) and 2007–2008 (n = 244). A decline was observed among...
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Serotype replacement in perspective Abstract An increase in the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) caused by non-vaccine serotypes (NVTs) (serotype replacement) has been observed since the introduction of the seven-valent...
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Vaccination with heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has significantly reduced the burden of pneumococcal disease and has had an important public health benefit. Because this vaccine targets only seven of the more than 92...
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Before any interventions were undertaken, the outbreak strain was isolated from nasopharyngeal specimens from 17 of the 74 residents tested (23 percent), including 3 in whom pneumonia subsequently developed, and 2 of the 69 employees tested (3...
Read more Pneumococcal disease accounts for more deaths than any other vaccine-preventable bacterial disease.1 Among the elderly, the case fatality rates for bacteremia approach 40 percent.2,3 Most cases are sporadic, and during the antibiotic era...
Read more New pneumococcal serotypes colonize nasopharynx since PCV13 introduction. New serotypes of pneumococcus have begun to colonize the nasopharynx of children since the introduction of the PCV13 vaccine in 2010, according to recent research data...
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Drug Company Has Temper Tantrum and Refuses to Sell Vaccines to China after They Turn Down Prevenar
Read more The 2011-2012 inactivated influenza vaccine VIS states that, “young children who get inactivated flu vaccine and pneumococcal vaccine (PCV13) at the same time appear to be at increased risk for seizures caused by fever.” ACIP chose to include...
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