الأحد، 5 نوفمبر 2017

Streptococcus vaccine 'could prevent over 100,000 baby deaths worldwide'

Experts call for more work to be done to develop vaccine for infection commonly carried by pregnant women, which can cause stillbirth and death

More than 100,000 stillbirths and baby deaths worldwide could be prevented by the development of a vaccine against an infection commonly carried by pregnant women, according to a groundbreaking report.

The impact of disease caused by group B streptococcus (GBS) has not been properly chronicled before and only in relatively recent years has anyone taken seriously its role in the deaths of babies in the womb as well as in the early days of life.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2iyrQm9

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