Meningitis A mass vaccination campaign shows dramatic impact of new vaccine
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
Research looking at the effectiveness of a new meningitis vaccine for the main epidemic strain in Africa shows dramatically reduced incidence of all cases of meningitis by 94 percent and carriage prevalence of the epidemic strain by 98 percent, while an epidemic persisted in unvaccinated parts of Chad.