Date : 20 Disember 2009
Time : before tengah hari
Place : KMC Kedah
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Artikal dari bernama :-
Pneumococcal Disease Kills 1 Million Children Worldwide Each Year
KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 (Bernama) — Pneumococcal disease (PnD) is estimated to kill one million children below the age of five annually throughout the world.
PnD is a highly contagious disease that easily spreads among children in droplets released into the air through sneezing or coughing.
Infants from birth to 24 months faced the highest risk to catch this deadly disease due to their low levels of circulating pneumococcal antibodies, said Dr Zulkifli Ismail at a health science writers workshop here Thursday.
“Sixty per cent of pre-school children are carriers of pneumococcus which means children who attend day care centre are more likely to be infected due to increased exposure to the bacteria in the day care setting,” said Dr Zulkifli.
The Head of the Department of Pharmacology Dr Mohd Suhaimi Abdul Wahab who spoke during the workshop said paediatric pneumococcal vaccine would be an effective prevention.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), vaccination should be a priority for inclusion in national childhood immunization programme but unfortunately many countries do not implement it.
Ritzzamoni Rosli, knew the urgency of WHO’s recommendations as she went through an ordeal when her baby girl was diagnosed with PnD at 3-month old.
During the workshop, she urged parents to learn more about the disease and protect their children by vaccination.
Although the vaccination was costly, it was a small price to pay compared to the heartbreak of watching your child lying helplessly in the hospital and subjected to needles and tubes, she said.
Four doses of pneumococcal vaccine are recommended for infants from two, four, six and 12-15 months.
Children from ages 1 to 2 years only require two doses while children beyond two years require a single dose of the vaccine.
At present, Pneumococcal Saccharide Conjugated Vaccine or PCV-7 in short is the first and only vaccine to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease among infants and children younger than 24 months.
The vaccination was licensed in Malaysia in the late 2005.
Sumber :- Bernama
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