Pneumonia is the single biggest killer of children under the age of 5 world wide – more than 2 million children a year. I am always struck by this statement, because when I think of high childhood mortality diseases I think of diarrhea, malaria, HIV/AIDS. This biggest pneumonia players globally are respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), [...]
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Did you know it was pneumonia?
Posted in Respiratory, tagged bacteria, pneumonia, Vaccine Preventable, virus on June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
