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Hepatitis Vaccination Programs Prevent Infant Deaths In Taiwan.
2001 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Officials in Taiwan say a massive hepatitis B vaccination program instituted 17 years ago has been responsible for declining infant mortality.
Retrieving data from the National Morality Registry System, a multimember research team in Taiwan has recorded new data showing declining fulminant hepatitis-related infant mortality over the last several years, largely because of widespread participation in a national hepatitis B vaccine campaign that was implemented in the middle of 1984.
Jia-Horng Kao and colleagues, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, bracketed data from 1975 until 1998 into two groups, comparing infant mortality related to fulminant hepatitis in the years between 1975 and 1984 with infant mortality due to the same cause between 1984 and 1998.
"The average mortality associated with fulminant hepatitis in infants from 1975 to 1984 and from 1985 to 1998 was 5.36 and 1.71 per 100,000 infants, respectively," Kao and colleagues said, continuing, "The ratio of the average mortality in the period from 1985 to 1998 to that in the period from ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Hepatitis Vaccination Programs Prevent Infant Deaths In Taiwan.