Excerpt
Pneumococcal disease is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality around the globe, as well as sizeable health care costs. Invasive pneumococcal disease causes about 4,800 deaths each year in the United States, yet more than half of such cases, and nearly all deaths, occur among adults for whom vaccination against pneumococcal disease is recommended. The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and its Pneumococcal Disease Advisory Board, co-chaired by APHA member William Schaffner, MD, is working to raise awareness of the impact of these diseases and the importance of increasing protection through immunization.
Footnotes
— Interview conducted, edited and condensed by Teddi Dineley Johnson
- Copyright The Nation’s Health, American Public Health Association