US CDC blames Hib death on vaccine rebels

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a report on invasive Haemophilius influenzae type b (Hib) disease in five  Minnesota children, one of whom died in 2008. Although one of the  vaccines that should have been available was the object of a product  recall in December 2007, supplies of two other products manufactured by  France's Sanofi Pasteur were "adequate for all infants to complete the  three-dose primary vaccine series," the agency said. Three of the  affected children, including the fatal case, had received no Hib  immunization at all.