The UK is close to eradicating a potentially ... The Hib/MenC vaccine is given to babies at one year old and helps prevent haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and meningitis C.

“The well-authenticated detection of Haemophilus influenzae in an early medieval child promises that it will be detectable in more cases in history, and potentially prehistory,” he says.

The first bacterial genome sequence, that of Haemophilus influenzae, was published in 1995 and took 1 year to complete, whereas draft bacterial genomes can now be produced in a matter of days.

and Haemophilus influenzae type b. National efforts to generate collaboration between federal, state, and local governments and public and private health care providers have resulted in record ...