Global burden of meningitis is unacceptably high, and progress lags substantially behind other vaccine-preventable diseases – Lancet study

The global disease burden of meningitis remains unacceptably high, and progress lags substantially behind that of other vaccine-preventable diseases, warns a new analysis published in The Lancet Neurology. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Global Burden of Disease study showed that meningitis deaths reduced by just 21% globally between 1990 - 2016, whereas other ["]

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