"New Meningococcal Vaccine Hits Australian Market"

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September 16, 2002

 

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

 

"New Meningococcal Vaccine Hits Australian Market"

Australian Broadcasting Corp. News (www.abc.net.au/news)

(09/16/02)

 

Supplies of a new vaccine against meningococcal C have hit the Australian market.  About two-thirds of the meningococcal deaths in Australia every year are linked to the C strain.  Dr. David Isaacs of Westmead's Children's Hospital noted that meningococcal C conjugate vaccines are quite effective, having reduced meningococcal C disease in the United Kingdom by as much as 95 percent.

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