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Vaccine demand as two children die in hospitals
"The government is being urged to use the most advanced vaccine against pneumococcal disease after two children died within a week...
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....Civic Party legislator Kwok Ka-ki urged the government to subsidize children's vaccinations using the latest vaccine, the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13).
The scientific committee on vaccine-preventable diseases in the Centre for Health Protection said in 2011 that PCV13, which was registered in Hong Kong in 2010, aims to prevent invasive diseases, pneumonia and pneumococcal disease in infants and children from six weeks to five years of age.
The PCV13 is recommended as preferable to the older PCV7 and PCV10 for use in the childhood immunization program.
Kwok said the deaths showed the present vaccination program may not offer sufficient protection against a strain of the bacteria.
"The government already knew children do not get full protection even after being vaccinated with PVC 7 or PVC 10 but does not care about it," Kwok said.
A working group on pneumococcal vaccination under the scientific committee will meet today to study the issue urgently."
Vaccine demand as two children die in hospitals
"The government is being urged to use the most advanced vaccine against pneumococcal disease after two children died within a week...
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....Civic Party legislator Kwok Ka-ki urged the government to subsidize children's vaccinations using the latest vaccine, the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13).
The scientific committee on vaccine-preventable diseases in the Centre for Health Protection said in 2011 that PCV13, which was registered in Hong Kong in 2010, aims to prevent invasive diseases, pneumonia and pneumococcal disease in infants and children from six weeks to five years of age.
The PCV13 is recommended as preferable to the older PCV7 and PCV10 for use in the childhood immunization program.
Kwok said the deaths showed the present vaccination program may not offer sufficient protection against a strain of the bacteria.
"The government already knew children do not get full protection even after being vaccinated with PVC 7 or PVC 10 but does not care about it," Kwok said.
A working group on pneumococcal vaccination under the scientific committee will meet today to study the issue urgently."