NEW YORK: American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has stopped selling one of its lucrative vaccines for children in China, the company said.

Pfizer gave no explanation for stopping its sales of the Prevnar vaccine, which helps prevent infections such as pneumonia, which killed an estimated 935,000 children under the age of five globally in 2013, according to the World Health Organization.

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