Pneumonia is a lung infection that annually impacts millions of people around the globe, according to the Centers for Disease ...

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Health experts are concerned about the escalating rise in pneumococcal cases, with the outbreak being Australia's worst in 20 years.

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Objective To quantify changes in inequalities in uptake of childhood vaccination during a period of steadily declining overall childhood vaccination rates in England. Design Longitudinal study.

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Understand pneumococcal disease, and learn how you can safeguard your child from it. THERE are many threats to our children’s health. The figures say it all. The World Health Organisation (WHO ...

The overall prevalence of pneumococcal carriage at baseline (2016 survey) across all intervention groups was 23.0% (315 of 1371) among infants and 36.6% (510 of 1394) among toddlers (Figure 3A).