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This week in PLoS Medicine: Adopting Hib vaccination; COPD for non-smokers

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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that analyzes data from 147 countries to identify factors that influence the time taken to introduce routine vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and an Essay that discusses the growing epidemic of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), especially in developing countries and among nonsmokers.

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