Pneumonia bugs kill 1.2 million children: Study

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25 Sep Pneumonia bugs kill 1.2 million children: Study

Posted at 13:42h in News by hfcdev

By Maggie Fox

Reuters – September 10, 2009

“More than a million children die every year from two pneumonia-causing diseases easily prevented with vaccines, researchers reported on Thursday. Each year 1.2 million children under age 5 die from Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae B or Hib, they found.”