Boosting Newborns’ Immune Responses
Friday, June 12, 2009 - 20:14
in Health & Medicine
Newborn babies have immature immune systems, making them highly vulnerable to severe infections and unable to mount an effective immune response to most vaccines, thereby frustrating efforts to protect them. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 2 million newborns and infants less than 6 months of age die each year due to infection.