Science news articles about 'meningococcal c'

... doses administered compared with a rate 0.1 per 100 000 doses administered in a 2003 school-based meningococcal C vaccination program. HPV vaccination programs will begin this fall ...

... C at 0.08 per 100,000 people in 2006. "The numbers may seem small, ... immuno-compromised individuals are most vulnerable to infection. Meningococcal C is the most fatal strain of bacterial meningitis ...

Universal childhood vaccination against meningococcal C appears to reduce Canadian incidence of the most deadly strain of bacterial meningitis, reports new research.