Pneumococcal vaccine could prevent numerous deaths, save costs during a flu pandemic
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 10:14
in Health & Medicine
A new predictive model shows that vaccinating infants with 7 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) - the current recommendation - not only saves lives and money during a normal flu season by preventing related bacterial infections; it also would prevent more than 357,000 deaths during an influenza pandemic, while saving $7 billion in costs...