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Vaccine targets world's biggest child-killer

An estimated 700 000 deaths could be averted by 2015 with the widespread use of a vaccine against pneumonia and other pneumococcal diseases that are the world's biggest child-killer.

16 Feb 2011

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More than half a million children younger than five die from pneumococcal disease every year, according to the UN World Health Organisation (WHO). It accounts for 18% of child deaths in developing countries.

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