Meningitis in Africa: ‘The risk of imminent large-scale epidemics is dangerously high’
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According to a recently published World Health Organization (WHO) Situation Report, a convergence of factors is threatening the region with large outbreaks affecting millions as bacterial meningitis season begins in West Africa. A dangerous combination of a new hyper-invasive strain of meningococcal meningitis serogroup C (Nm C) is circulating at the same time that an acute shortage ["]
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