Consultant Paediatric Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM), Dr. Zulkifli Ismail said, the public is less concerned about the problems of infectious diseases among children.

Should''in view of the matter is serious because about two million children under five years old die each year from infectious diseases.

"The disease and death among children worldwide is being noted in the pneumococcal (PnD).

This disease''among the most deadly disease is highly contagious today. It is estimated that a child dies every minute throughout the world due to the pneumococcus bacteria infections,''he said at the introduction of vaccine PREVENAR 13, recently.

Also present was State Manager for Pfizer, Angela Choi.

Estimates the World Health Organization (WHO) also found that, each year the disease causes the death of over one million children under five years old in developing countries.

Dr. Zulkifli told, about 60 percent of children into kindergarten and preschool are also carriers of pneumococcal bacteria. It can be spread to other children in daily interactions in kindergarten or nursery.

Clearly, there is one more of the bacteria S. Pneumoniae, which causes life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis and bacteremia, blood poisoning and otitis media (middle ear infection).

Each of the bacteria S. Pneumoniae is estimated to kill more than 735,000 children under the age of five in the world especially in developing countries.

''If your pediatrician finds first cases of Hib infection is the main cause of the spread of pneumococcal and deaths involving children under 5 years old, but since 2005 the study found, PnD is the main source.

''This disease affects not only children but also elderly due to the immune system is relatively weak,''he said.

Although there are no specific drugs to treat PnD, it still can be solved with the use of vaccines.