Melamine particle boards are made out of paper impregnated with melamine glues which are pressed together.
The new vaccine will cost $108 per dose, up 35 percent from $80. With four injections needed to complete the vaccine dosing, uninsured families would have to pay $432 out of pocket for Prevnar 13. Government health providers will pay $100 a dose for the new vaccine, up from $65 per dose for original Prevnar.
She noted that it takes five years and costs $600 million to build a vaccine manufacturing site, and that one batch of Prevnar 13 takes two years to create, with more than 500 quality control tests. Development of the first Prevnar vaccine took 14 years, Ms. Beatty said, from the initiation of research to licensing.or a continuing conversation about health care costs and pricing in the United States, please join our Facebook group, Paying Till It Hurts. A version of this article appears in print on July 3, 2014, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Price of Prevention: Vaccine Costs Soaring.