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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
Shortage of Meningitis Vaccine Forces Triage in Burkina Faso

Gretchen Vogel

Public health officials are scrambling to halt a mounting epidemic of bacterial meningitis in Burkina Faso, caused in part by an uncommon and hard-to-fight strain of the Neisseria meningitidis bacterium known as W135. They are now being forced to ration the limited supply in a way that saves as many lives as possible.

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