Saturday, May 12, 2012

How bacteria behind serious childhood disease evolve to evade vaccines

I've had questions about this.  I know that the bacteria that causes meningitis is the same one that causes pneumonia.  There is a vaccine for meningitis yet nearly 52,000 people die of pneumonia in 2009.  I understand that there may be different strains that caused this to happen, but I didn't understand that there were as many as 90 different strains!  The vaccines only cover about seven.

This is a very interesting article.

How bacteria behind serious childhood disease evolve to evade vaccines

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