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Case reports, personal testimonies, newspaper and journal articles about people who have suffered or died from vaccine-preventable diseases
Age Title Summary Published Format*
86 yrs. "Pneumococcal Pneumonia: How I let down my friend" Report #95: Linda Ohri, PharmD, writes about how an elderly friend's illness with pneumococcal pneumonia reminded her that vaccine advocacy begins at home. 7/16/07 HTML
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3 yrs. "Three-year-old's ordeal with severe pneumococcal disease includes bloodstream and blood infection" Report #75: A relieved mother writes about her young son's months-long recovery from invasive pneumococcal disease.
 
6/8/05 HTML
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Older
adults
"Outbreak of pneumococcal pneumonia in a New Jersey nursing home claims four lives" Report #53: A pneumococcal pneumonia outbreak in a New Jersey nursing home causes the hospitalization of nine residents and the death of four.
 
1/16/03 HTML
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38 yrs. "Case closed: Pneumococcal vaccine may be everyone's responsibility" Report #41: Lacking the protection of a prophylactic pneumococcal vaccine, a splenectomy patient develops pneumococcal sepsis. She requires bilateral below-the-knee amputations, partial amputation of eight fingers, and partial amputation of her nose.
 
11/19/01 HTML
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6 yrs. "Boy dies of pneumococcal meningitis" Report #40: A mother loses her 6-year-old son to pneumococcal meningitis. She now works at the Meningitis Foundation of America to ensure that other parents never experience the heartache her family has endured.
 
5/1/01 HTML
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Older
adults
"Two deaths in a nursing home ignite pneumococcal vaccine campaign" Report #17: The death of two patients from streptococcal pneumonia infection, and the illness of another, spurs a nursing home's staff to work with the Texas Department of Health to protect vulnerable residents with pneumococcal vaccine.
 
5/26/99 HTML
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