|
Age |
Title |
Summary |
Published |
Format* |
| 86 yrs. |
Pneumococcal Pneumonia:
How I let down my friend |
Report #95: Linda Ohri,
PharmD, writes about how an elderly friend's illness with pneumococcal pneumonia
reminded her that vaccine advocacy begins at home. |
7/16/07 |
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| 3 yrs. |
Three-year-old's ordeal with severe
pneumococcal disease includes bloodstream and blood infection |
Report #75: A relieved mother
writes about her young son's months-long recovery from invasive pneumococcal
disease.
|
6/8/05 |
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Older
adults |
"Outbreak of pneumococcal pneumonia
in a New Jersey nursing home claims four lives" |
Report #53: A pneumococcal
pneumonia outbreak in a New Jersey nursing home causes the hospitalization of
nine residents and the death of four.
|
1/16/03 |
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| 38 yrs. |
"Case closed: Pneumococcal vaccine
may be everyone's responsibility" |
Report #41: Lacking the protection
of a prophylactic pneumococcal vaccine, a splenectomy patient develops
pneumococcal sepsis. She requires bilateral below-the-knee amputations, partial
amputation of eight fingers, and partial amputation of her nose.
|
11/19/01 |
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| 6 yrs. |
"Boy dies of pneumococcal
meningitis" |
Report #40: A mother loses her
6-year-old son to pneumococcal meningitis. She now works at the Meningitis
Foundation of America to ensure that other parents never experience the
heartache her family has endured.
|
5/1/01 |
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Older
adults |
"Two deaths in a nursing home ignite
pneumococcal vaccine campaign" |
Report #17: The death of two
patients from streptococcal pneumonia infection, and the illness of another,
spurs a nursing home's staff to work with the Texas Department of Health to
protect vulnerable residents with pneumococcal vaccine.
|
5/26/99 |
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