Four vaccine schemes could prevent 1,400 deaths

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A new report on the benefit of adult vaccination has found that if four programmes were fully implemented, it would prevent 1,400 deaths, over 73,700 hospitalisations and 376,000 disease cases.

This would be achieved over the expected remaining life years of the vaccinated population, amounting to a period of around 19 years.

The report was produced by the Office for Health Economics in the UK, commissioned by pharmaceutical firm GSK and launched at Leinster House today. The study considered adult vaccines and their programmes as recommended by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee.The report looked at the benefit of offering it to people aged 50 years and above.

 

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