Health and Fitness

New Pneumonia Vaccine Targets Leading Cause of Child Deaths Worldwide – UN

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–14 February 2011 – Hundreds of infants in Kenya received their first shots against pneumococcal disease today at a special United Nations-backed event to celebrate the global roll-out of vaccines targeting the world’s leading cause of child deaths – pneumonia.

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President Mwai Kibaki joined parents, health workers, ambassadors and donors in Nairobi to witness children being immunised as part of the Government’s formal introduction of pneumococcal vaccinein its routine immunisation programme for all…

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