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MHLW to Continue Discussions on Elderly Use of Prevenar 13 under National Vaccination Program
A vaccine evaluation panel of the health ministry agreed on July 28 to continue deliberating on whether to add Pfizer’s Prevenar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, to the publicly funded immunization program for use in the elderly by comparing…
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