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PATH launches new vaccine development effort to prevent pneumonia

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 3rd, 2006

The Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) announced a new program to seek a vaccine that is capable of addressing a broad range of strains of pneumococcus, a bacterium that causes pneumonia.

PATH, an international nonprofit organization with over 27 years of global health experience, will work with public and private-sector partners to identify and test promising pneumococcal vaccines. The 5-year effort is supported by a US$75 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

PATH's pneumococcal vaccine effort builds on work begun in 2005 to produce protein-derived vaccines to prevent strains of pneumococcus not...

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