UK to Offer Meningitis B Vaccine to One Million Young People
The UK government plans to offer the Meningitis B vaccine to one million young people, including school leavers and new university students, following a series of recent deaths.
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Meningitis B vaccine to be offered to a million young people
The decision for the one-off vaccine programme follows the unprecedented outbreak in Kent this year.
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One-off programme to begin in July after recent MenB outbreaks in Kent, Dorset and Berkshire killed three people Teenagers in their final school year and young people starting university will be offered two doses of a vaccine to protect them against meningitis B, the government has announced. The one-off vaccination programme, which will begin in late July, comes after an unprecedented outbreak of meningitis B in Kent earlier this year along with clusters of cases in Dorset and Berkshire that...
By Nicola Davis Science correspondent
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