{"id":73450,"date":"2017-10-24T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/new-pneumonia-vaccine-protects-against-over-70-strains-of-the-disease"},"modified":"2017-10-24T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:42:30","slug":"new-pneumonia-vaccine-protects-against-over-70-strains-of-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/new-pneumonia-vaccine-protects-against-over-70-strains-of-the-disease","title":{"rendered":"New pneumonia vaccine protects against over 70 strains of the disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-pneumonia-vaccine-protects-against-over-70-strains-of-the-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new vaccine targeting dozens of new strains of pneumonia could potentially save \u201chundreds of thousands of lives\u201d according to researchers. Early studies show the new vaccine effectively protects against a variety of bacteria that causes pneumococcal disease including pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis.<\/p>\n<p>Since the introduction in the early 2000s of vaccines targeting the most deadly forms of pneumonia, the World Health Organization has estimated global deaths of children from the disease have been cut in half. Alongside better nutrition and access to antibiotics, a vaccine against the 23 most deadly pneumonia-causing bacteria has been held as responsible for the millions of lives saved.<\/p>\n<p>Now a team of scientists from the University at Buffalo and New York University\u2019s Langone Medical Center has developed a new vaccine that targets another 50 strains of a bacterium called <em class=\"\">Streptococcus pneumoniae<\/em>, the primary bacteria responsible for pneumococcal disease.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/pneumonia-vaccine-improved\/51890\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/pneumonia-vaccine-improved\/51890\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new vaccine targeting dozens of new strains of pneumonia could potentially save \u201chundreds of thousands of lives\u201d according to researchers. Early studies show the new vaccine effectively protects against a variety of bacteria that causes pneumococcal disease including pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis. Since the introduction in the early 2000s of vaccines targeting the most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}