Sentence examples for killer pneumonia from inspiring English sources

Efforts to combat the world's biggest killer, pneumonia -- which killed 3.5 million people in 1998 -- are being undermined, the report said, because 80percentt of respiratory infections are treated with unnecessary medications.

The Government has also recently introduced the pneumococcal vaccine to protect children from another leading child killer, pneumonia.

Pneumonia Still Number One Killer Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that fills them with fluid, causing cough and fever and making breathing difficult.

In Kenyan camps, vaccine protects Somali refugee children from killer pneumonia DADAAB, Kenya, 14 September 2011 – About six months ago, Kenya was one of the first countries in Africa to introduce the pneumococcal vaccine, and children now have access to this life-saving intervention through routine immunization in the Dadaab refugee camps in the north-east of the country.

"If other donors follow the lead of the Gates Foundation and step up their funding for vaccines," Dr. Lob-Levyt said, "GAVI has the ability to immunize millions of children against the world's two biggest childhood killers, pneumonia and diarrhea".

And when you start to look at pathogens like pneumococcal and rotavirus - causes of the two biggest childhood killers, pneumonia and diarrhoea - the number of deaths rapidly climbs up into the high hundreds of thousands.

The pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines prevent two major child killers, pneumonia and diarrhea.

More will also need to be invested in the prevention and treatment of three major, yet largely neglected, childhood killers: diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria.

Those killers include pneumonia, which contributes to 18 per cent of deaths of children under 5, and diarrhoea, which is responsible for 11 per cent.

The present study has reported factors associated with severe disease from the three main childhood killers (malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea), thus providing more areas for further intervention towards child mortality from treatable illnesses.

On returning from India, one of our ambassadors, Natasha Kaplinsky, helped lobby behind the scenes for a big breakthrough that came last week on vaccines for killer diseases like pneumonia and diarrhoea, vaccines that will save four million lives.