Sentence examples for hib from inspiring English sources

These include adult diseases, such as genital herpes, which give vaccine firms access to a lucrative private market.Albert Saporta, a manager at France's Pasteur Mérieux Connaught (PMC), traces today's enthusiasm for vaccines to the runaway success of just two products, against the Haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB) bacterium and the hepatitis-B virus.

HIB used to infect one in every 200 American children, causing severe and often fatal meningitis in two-thirds of them.

Required vaccinations generally include diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella (German measles), Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib), hepatitis B, and chicken pox.

Assuming that GAVI — the former Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization — approves the plan, Haiti will be the last country in this hemisphere to adopt a pentavalent vaccine that protects against Haemophilus influenzae type B, or Hib, and hepatitis B, as well as diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus.

In particular, a vaccine effectiveness trial using Hib – conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in June 2007 and involving 68,000 infants under two – showed that there was no significant reduction in clinically diagnosed pneumonia compared with the control group.

Unfortunately, Hib does not fit that bill in Asia.

When the UK vaccination programme began in 1992, there were approximately 1,500 cases of Hib meningitis, mostly in babies, with 65 deaths and 150 children surviving with major handicap.

We also give babies Hib vaccine, against haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria, which can also cause meningitis and septicaemia.