{"id":87743,"date":"2019-12-21T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87743"},"modified":"2019-12-21T17:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T22:18:43","slug":"a-wonderful-nyy-obit-on-dr-john-b-robbins-developer-of-the-vaccine-for-hib-meningitis-and-others-currently-saving-millions-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87743","title":{"rendered":"A Wonderful NYT Obit on Dr. John B. Robbins, developer of the vaccine for Hib meningitis and others, currently saving millions per year"},"content":{"rendered":"

By some estimates, Dr. Robbins\u2019s vaccine against the illness, called Hib meningitis, has saved seven million lives since it was licensed in 1989.<\/p>\n

Pediatricians who worked in the pre-vaccine days remember feeling their hearts sink when they saw Hib bacteria under a microscope in a baby\u2019s spinal fluid. It meant that, even with antibiotics, the child was at risk of permanent brain damage, deafness or death.<\/p>\n

Before the vaccine, Hib meningitis killed about 400,000 children a year, according to the World Health Organization….<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I always live in slight fear of seeing a child with deadly HiB meningitis or epiglottitis.<\/p>\n

It’s because of people like Dr Robbins that I’ve never seen the latter, and only once the former.<\/p>\n

And they didn’t make any money off of it. Thank you, sir. https:\/\/t.co\/wr4T9orrXA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dr. Dipesh Navsaria (@navsaria) December 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n