Page 3 - Pneumonia
Children's Day: How Covid's ally pneumonia is a threat to India's children
Around 233,240 Indian children under five die due to pneumonia and diarrhea each year, says a report
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India Coronavirus Dispatch: Why pandemic is still surging despite lockdown
India went in for an early lockdown and encouraged social distancing and other measures, unlike the Trump and Bolsonaro govts
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Coronavirus fears lead to sudden spike in pneumonia vaccine sales
many people have become sensitised to adult vaccination in the country as we await the first vaccine candidate against the SARS-CoV-2 virus
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India's 1st indigenously developed vaccine against pneumonia gets DCGI nod
The Serum Institute of India first obtained the approval of the DCGI to conduct Phase I, II and III clinical trials of the vaccine in India
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New strain of virus behind China's mystery Pneumonia outbreak: Report
The infection was first confirmed on December 31 in Wuhan, a central Chinese city with a population of over 11 million, and initially sparked fears about a resurgence of the highly contagious flu-like
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Pneumonia kills one child every 39 seconds; 127,000 died in India last year
The disease is preventable but still kills more children -- 800,000 under the age of five last year -- than any other infection
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A major cause of death within ICU in India
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia is a condition that claims as many as 250,000 lives in the country, annually
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Local pharma companies to challenge MNCs in pneumonia vaccine space
The Indian market is at present dominated by GlaxoSmithKline Pharma and Pfizer
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Pneumonia may kill over 1.7 mn children in India, 11 mn in world by 2030
As many 880,000 children, mostly under the age of two, died from the disease in 2016, the most recent year for which full data is available
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New vaccine may bring down number of deaths due to pneumonia: Study
In 2004, pneumonia killed more than two million children worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)
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