"Vaccine Will Virtually Wipe Out Killer Meningitis Virus"

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March 4, 2002

 

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

 

"Vaccine Will Virtually Wipe Out Killer Meningitis Virus" Sunday Mail (Scotland) (03/03/02) P. 22; Paterson, Billy

 

This week, scientists backed by the Meningitis Association of Scotland reportedly will unveil a breakthrough vaccine that is said to be 95 percent effective in fighting against the known meningitis viral strains.  One of the researchers, Dr. Jan Matthias Braun, explained: "The vaccine contains antibodies that prevent the bug from causing the inflammation of the membrane surrounding the brain."  According to one of the founders of the Meningitis Association of Scotland, Eileen McKeirnan, the new vaccine would protect against the A, B, and C strains of meningitis.  Meningitis has killed three people already this year in Scotland, and it took the lives of 13 last year.

 

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