10 May 2023

Stronger vaccine needed for pneumococcal disease

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 10 May 2023

A recent study from Otago University, Christchurch supports the need for a stronger strain of immunisations against pneumococcal, know as PVC-13.

Last year, Pharmac made the decision to update the Childhood Vaccination Schedule.

Co-author of the study, Professor Tony Walls is a peadiatric and infectious disease specialist and an immunisation advisor. He talks to Jesse.

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