Meningitis A close to elimination in African meningitis belt thanks to MenAfriVac vaccine
by Press Release from Outbreak News Today on (#14TEW)
Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African "meningitis belt" countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to celebrate one of Africa's biggest public health achievements-the introduction of a vaccine, MenAfriVac(R), designed, developed, and produced for use in Africa, that in five years of use has nearly eliminated serogroup A meningococcal disease from meningitis ["]