Thursday, February 9, 2012

Young Seniors May Get Pneumococcal Pneumonia Vaccine

The 42 million people in the U.S. who are between 50 and 65 may soon have a new vaccine to prevent pneumococcal pneumonia – a virulent form of the disease estimated to infect between 5 and 10 million people a year in the United States, and killing between 40,000 to 70,000 annually, according to the Global Healthy Living Foundation.

URL: http://www.disabled-world.com/medical/immunization/prevnar-13.php

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