New typhoid fever vaccine protects young childrenThe first field trial of a new typhoid vaccine that can be used in young children provides protection for 81.6 per cent of recipients, opening the door to better control of a disease that affects 11 million people each year and kills roughly 117,000. The new test, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved children as young as 9 months. The vaccine was given to 10,005 children in Lalitpur, Nepal, where the disease is endemic. While 38 children given meningococcal conjugate vaccine developed typhoid fever, there were only 7 cases among the youngsters given the TCV. The test was conducted by the Baltimore, Maryland-based Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium, a partnership between Oxford, the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the international nonprofit organization PATH.

Source: Standard Digital December 04, 2019 21:56 UTC