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A group of San Francisco researchers has successfully used a vaccine to prevent pneumonia and reported their discovery in an issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published yesterday.
Dr. Joseph E. Addiego Jr., acting chief of Hematology at the Children's Hospital Medical Center of Northern California, said yesterday that if the government allows the use of the vaccine for young children, an entire generation of the country could be immunized within five years.
The vaccine, made from the sugar coating of the bacteria, is particularly important because it will be useful against new strains of pneumonia recently found that are resistant to the usual antibiotic treatment.
What has all the Arab countries jittery, especially Saudi Arabia, is that during the next few months millions of Muslims will be making the pilgrimage to the holy shrine in Mecca. Cholera has already appeared near Medina on one of the routes followed by the faithful coming from as far...
In an effort to stem the tide of new cases, health authorities are now using more of other insecticides, such as Malathion and propoxur to kill DDT-resistant mosquitoes-but the insects are already showing signs of developing resistance to the newer chemicals. Thus the most practical response now to...