New Vaccine in African Trials Said to Offer Hope Against Bacterium

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"No one expected so big a reduction in pneumonia, hospitalization and mortality,' Dr. Levine said. 'Most people don't know it, but pneumococcal disease kills more people every year than malaria. In this trial, we prevented one death for every 200 children we vaccinated. That's a whopping public-health contribution.'"