Pakistan becomes first country to introduce new typhoid vaccine into routine immunisation

Pakistan today became the first country in the world to introduce the World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its routine immunization program. It is the first typhoid vaccine that can be given to children as young as 6 months of age and confers longer term protection against typhoid. The government of Pakistan is launching the vaccine introduction with a campaign in Sindh Province, which is the center of an ongoing extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid outbreak that began in November 2016.

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