Ranchi: From birth until the age of six, children are supposed to receive nearly two dozen types of vaccines under the ...

The joint MSF and Ministry of Health campaign is immunising children under five years old using a measles vaccine and the Penta-5 vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B ...

The Penta vaccine, on the other hand, protects against the Haemophilus influenzae B bacterium, which also causes bacterial meningitis, besides preventing diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis ...