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A bacterial pneumonia vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday "will have limited application in this community because the incidence of bacterial pneumonia here is very low," Dr. Sholem Postel, acting director of University Health Services, said yesterday.
The F.D.A. cleared Pneumovax for market early next year. The vaccine has proven in tests to be about 80 per cent effective.
Now, just as the pneumococci seem to be gaining the upper hand, medical researchers have developed a powerful new weapon against them. Last week doctors at the University of California in San Francisco reported spectacular success in inoculating a group of 77 vulnerable youngsters with a prototype pneumonia vaccine. All...
The product of more than a decade of development by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the vaccine is made from purified bacterial antigens?the chemical keys by which the body recognizes invading germs and orders up antibodies against them. The variety used in San Francisco contained antigens...
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize commercial production of the vaccine before year's end. At first shots will probably be recommended only for those at highest risk: people over 50, victims of chronic ailments, and those confined to crowded, epidemic-prone areas like military bases. But...