Sanofi Pasteur MSD Vaccines

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Today, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), vaccines are available to protect against more than 26 infectious diseases.

Sanofi Pasteur MSD have the broadest available range of vaccines, protecting against 20 infectious diseases:

* World’s largest producer of influenza vaccines: over 170 million doses provided in 2008
* World’s leading provider of poliomyelitis vaccine
* Broadest range of modern pediatric combination vaccines for children throughout the world
* World’s largest provider of meningococcal vaccines with an unfaltering commitment to provide meningococcal vaccine to fight epidemics in Africa
* Largest portfolio of vaccines for travelers and people living in tropical areas: typhoid, rabies, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B

Their vaccines protect against 20 infectious diseases.

Bacterial diseases:

* Cholera
* Diphtheria
* Haemophilus influenzae type b Infections
* Meningococcal Infections
* Pertussis
* Pneumococcal Infections
* Tetanus
* Tuberculosis
* Typhoid Fever


Viral diseases:

* Hepatitis A
* Hepatitis B
* Influenza
* Japanese Encephalitis
* Measles
* Mumps
* Poliomyelitis
* Rabies
* Rubella
* Varicella
* Yellow Fever
* And smallpox, eradicated in 1980 (vaccine produced as a measure in response to the threat of bioterrorism).