Pneumonia is a severe inflammation of the lungs ... expensive to be widely used in the developing world. Another H Flu (Hib) vaccine has also been found to be effective in field testing.

often in the form of Streptococcus pneumoniae or Haemophilus influenzae pneumonia — which kill more than two million children each year. Another two million children under the age of five ...

It usually starts with bacteria responsible for strep throat or staph infection, or Haemophilus influenzae (pneumonia and meningitis). In general, peritonsillar abscesses take about two to eight ...

So, babies get a pneumococcal vaccine, which helps protect against pneumococcal pneumonia. They also get a Hib vaccine, which helps protecting, and it's another type of bacterial pneumonia.

An independent study states that the deadly disease Hib meningitis has been totally eliminated in children of five years and below. Haemophilus influenzae type b is a leading cause of pneumonia ...