1 super shot for kids.Two of the world's leading vaccine makers have announced plans to join forces to develop and market "super shot" combination vaccines to protect children from half a dozen or more diseases with a single injection. In a new super shot, for example, Merck & Co.'s vaccines against hepatitis B Hepatitis B Definition Hepatitis B is a potentially serious form of liver inflammation due to infection by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It occurs in both rapidly developing (acute) and long-lasting (chronic) forms, and is one of the most common chronic and haemophilus B influenza might be combined with Connaught Laboratories' polio and diphtheria diphtheria (dĭfthēr`ēə), acute contagious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Klebs-Loffler bacillus) bacteria that have been infected by a bacteriophage. It begins as a soreness of the throat with fever. , tetanus and pertussis vaccines. --From the Ann Arbor News The Ann Arbor News is a newspaper serving Washtenaw and Livingston counties. Published in Ann Arbor, Michigan, under various names since 1835, The News is part of Booth Newspapers, owned by Advance Publications Inc. , June 20, 1991. |
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