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Pneumococcal Pneumonia: How I let down my friend
Source: IAC, Unprotected People Report #95, July 16, 2007
www.immunize.org/reports/report095.pdf

Three-year-old's ordeal with severe pneumococcal disease includes bloodstream and lung infection
Source: IAC Express #531, June 8, 2005
www.immunize.org/reports/report075.asp

Outbreak of pneumococcal pneumonia in a New Jersey nursing home claims four lives
Source: IAC Express #360, January 16, 2003
www.immunize.org/reports/report053.asp

Multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in a child care center---Southwest Georgia, December 2000
Source: MMWR, January 4, 2002, Vol. 50(51):1156
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5051a2.htm

Case closed: Pneumococcal vaccine may be everyone’s responsibility
Source: IAC Express #282, November 19, 2001
www.immunize.org/reports/report041.asp

Boy dies of pneumococcal meningitis
Source:
IAC Express #241, May 1, 2001
www.immunize.org/reports/report040.asp

Two deaths in a nursing home ignite pneumococcal vaccine campaign
Source:
IAC Express #83, May 26, 1999
www.immunize.org/reports/report017.asp

Hemorrhage and shock associated with invasive pneumococcal infection in healthy infants and children--New Mexico, 1993-1994
Source: MMWR, January 6, 1995, Vol. 43(51):949-52
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00035440.htm

 

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