HealthQuill Respiratory diseases
Pneumonia is a form of acute respiratory infection that affects the lungs and kills more children than any other infectious disease. Every day at least one child dies from pneumonia every 43 seconds, according to UNICEF.
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Opinion: Steps for prevention, spread, and monitoring pneumonia

By K. Leelamoni November 5, 2023: Outbreaks of pneumonia affecting children in parts of northern China, the US,  the Netherlands, and Denmark are higher than.

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The World Health Organisation is monitoring an increase in children’s illness caused by pathogens, including acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, in northern China.
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WHO keeping an eye on a surge of respiratory illness in northern China

The World Health Organization is monitoring an increase in children’s illness caused by pathogens, including acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, in northern China.

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An advisory panel of the national public agency of the US, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has provisionally recommended Pfizer’s vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus in pregnant women to protect infants during the infection season.
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CDC panel backs Pfizer’s respiratory virus vaccine to protect infants 

HQ Team September 23, 2023: An advisory panel of the national public agency of the US, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has.

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An advisory committee of the USFDA has given a “favourable benefit-risk profile” for Sanofi and AstraZeneca’s experimental drug nirsevimab, meant to treat lower respiratory tract disease in newborns, according to a statement from the Paris-based firm.
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FDA’s advisory panel backs Sanofi, AstraZeneca’s investigational drug for newborns

HQ Team June 9, 2023: An advisory committee of the USFDA has given a “favourable benefit-risk profile” for Sanofi and AstraZeneca’s experimental drug.

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