How to Use Hib in a Sentence

Hib

noun
  • Even people who aren’t sick can spread Hib to others through coughs and sneezes.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Hib was a leading cause of bacterial meningitis in kids under age 5 at the time.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • It’s been almost a year since Ashlee Dahlberg lost her 8-year-old son, Liam, to Hib.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Booster doses of Hib and PCV are also given at this time.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • New cases in unvaccinated kids feed concern that Hib may have a resurgence.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • But as more parents skip routine vaccinations of their children, doctors worry Hib cases will return in force.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The disease, commonly called Hib, is a bacterial infection that can sometimes cause problems that are easy to treat.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Santosham, like Edwards, worked to pioneer the first Hib vaccines in the 1980s.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Hib, pneumococcal conjugate, polio, measles, mumps and rubella, as well as chickenpox.
    — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The first target of this innovation was a bacterium called Haemophilus influenzae Type b, or Hib.
    — Jake Scott, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The first target of this innovation was a bacterium called Haemophilus influenzae Type b, or Hib.
    — Jake Scott, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • After vaccinations began, the number of Hib infections dropped to fewer than 50 a year.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The first was the introduction of a vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), a bacterium that can cause meningitis.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Florida is looking to end school-entry vaccinations, including for Hib.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Widespread use of Hib vaccine has brought cases of invasive disease in this country down to levels so low that single cases are actually newsworthy.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 2 Mar. 2026
  • After vaccinations began in the 1980s, the number of Hib infections dropped to fewer than 50 a year.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Like Ratner encountering his first patient with Hib, the German doctors had never seen diphtheria before.
    — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The vaccine given to protect against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, Hib, and polio includes hepatitis B.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The Hib conjugate vaccine was licensed for use in infants in 1990, and within five years Hib disease in young children dropped by more than 99%.
    — Jake Scott, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The Hib conjugate vaccine was licensed for use in infants in 1990, and within five years Hib disease in young children dropped by more than 99%.
    — Jake Scott, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The following year, Ratner treated another infant with Hib, then another, each of them unvaccinated.
    — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Now, parents who haven’t experienced the frightening effects of the highly contagious and fast-moving infection are increasingly opting out of vaccinating their kids against Hib.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Ratner saw a direct line between a loss of trust and the sick children in his ICU — first with measles in 2018 and 2019, then with Hib a few years later.
    — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Serious cases of Haemophilus influenzae type B, or Hib, once impacted 20,000 children in the United States each year.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The Hib vaccine − introduced more than three decades ago and now recommended for all children younger than 5 − drastically cut cases, preventing nearly all vaccinated children from developing disease.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Health experts worry about undetected spread, especially amid cuts to CDC surveillance and reporting to detect diseases including Hib.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • In his early career as the head of a pediatric emergency department in Minneapolis, before the Hib vaccine was available, Goldhagen would see children die every year from the infections.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The Hib vaccine was recommended for children starting in 1989 and the pneumococcal vaccine was recommended for children starting in 2001.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Conversations with pediatricians suggest additional Hib cases are occurring and causing severe illness.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The possibility that Hib could make a comeback means that doctors have to start thinking differently — and possibly more aggressively — when a young, unvaccinated patient comes in with what looks like a typical bacterial infection.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026

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