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February 26, 2003
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Children's Hospital Trials New Vaccine"
Australian Associated Press (AAP) (aap.com.au)
One hundred children at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital in Australia will participate in a test of a new vaccine that aims to protect against the C and Y strains of meningococcal disease. Another 300 children in Perth and Melbourne will receive the vaccination as well. Prof. Don Roberton of the Pediatric Trial Unit research team noted that a vaccine already being used only protects children under the age of two against the C strain of meningitis.
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