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Hib conjugate vaccines are effective against all manifestations of Hib disease, with a clinical efficacy among fully vaccinated children estimated to be between 95–100%. The vaccine has also been shown to be immunogenic in patients at high risk of invasive disease. Hib vaccine is not effective against non-type B Haemophilus influenzae.
Hib vaccines cost about seven times the total cost of vaccines against measles, polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. Consequently, whereas 92% of the populations of developed countries were vaccinated against Hib as of 2003, vaccination coverage was 42% for developing countries, and only 8% for least-developed countries. [58]
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DTaP-Hib vaccine is a combination vaccine whose generic name is diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed with Haemophilus B conjugate vaccine, sometimes abbreviated to DTaP-Hib. [2] It protects against the infectious diseases diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and Haemophilus influenzae type B. [3] [4]
Before the introduction of the Hib vaccine in 1985, [4] Haemophilus meningitis was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children under the age of five. However, since the creation of the Hib vaccine, only two in every 100,000 children contract this type of meningitis. [ 2 ]
Before Haemophilus influenzae (Hib) immunization children of two to four were most commonly affected. [1] With immunization about 1.3 per 100,000 children are affected a year. [ 1 ] It has been reported that only 0.5 per 100,000 American children are diagnosed every year, while the incidence in American adults is about 1 to 4 per 100,000. [ 11 ]
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Hib or HIB may refer to: Hib Milks, a Canadian Professional Hockey forward; Haemophilus influenzae serotype b, and the corresponding Hib vaccine;