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Wednesday, May 12, 2004The report found that between 1998 and 2002, annual U.S. incidence rates for invasive pneumococcal disease -- pneumonia and meningitis -- decreased from 19 to 12.1 cases per 100,000 among whites and from 54.9 to 26.5 among blacks. "Due to these declines, 14,730 fewer cases occurred among whites and 8,780 fewer cases occurred among blacks in the United States in 2002, compared with the average number in two pre-vaccine years, 1998 and 1999," the study said. That's quite a reduction among minorities. I'm guessing that the decrease in rates would be even more impressive if they broke it down into children who attended daycare and those who didn't, rather than classifying it by race. It's too bad the vaccine isn't available, although the CDC says it is, but just in short supply. I haven't been able to buy any for the past two months. And neither has our county health department. posted by Sydney on 5/12/2004 08:26:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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