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Your e-resource for Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
disease!
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) bacteria cause severe infections,
including meningitis (a serious infection of the outer lining of the brain).
Infants and children under 5 years of age are most at risk for Hib infection.
Before conjugated Hib vaccines became available in the late 1980s, each
year about 20,000 people — mostly children under age 5 — developed Hib disease
and about 600 children died from Hib meningitis.
Emergency room physicians routinely saw children seriously ill, some
gasping for air, as a result of Hib infection. Many of the children who survived suffered
deafness, seizures, and/or mental retardation.1,2
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Sources:
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: The Pink Book. 9th ed. Washington,DC: Public Health Foundation; 2006:111-123. 2.
CDC. National Immunization Program. What would happen if we stopped
vaccinations? Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/fs/gen/WhatIfStop.htm. Accessed June 22, 2006.
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