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Using a strategy modeled after the LYMERix vaccine, which was pulled from the market in 2002 after four years of sales for allegedly causing damaging side effects, Gomes-Solecki and her team developed an oral solution with a different target: the white-footed mice.
The first vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease was licensed in the United States in 1985. The HbPV polysaccharide vaccine was used until 1988. Porter W. Anderson, Jr, PhD, and David H. Smith, MD (1932-1999), had begun working in 1968 on extracting and purifying the polysaccharide outer coating of the bacteria.