Harvard has a vaccine against septic shock

Sepsis kills 270,000 Americans a year. We may finally have a vaccine.

By B. David Zarley

Researchers at Harvard have created a vaccine that could prevent sepsis — an extremely serious condition that can be caused by a host of bacteria.

The CDC estimates that sepsis kills 270,000 people in the U.S. every year; one in three deaths in a hospital is related to sepsis.