IRISH children will have to wait until next year before they are entitled to a lifesaving vaccine manufactured in the State.

IRISH children are not entitled to a life-saving vaccine manufactured in the State.

I WAS concerned to read (Irish Examiner March 28) that “babies in Cork face a three-month waiting list for BCG, a vaccine routinely administered to newborns in every other county.”

A VACCINATION against pneumococcal disease, which claims 130 lives in Ireland every year, is expected to be included in the country’s childhood immunisation scheme.

THE Meningitis Trust has launched a campaign urging the Government to introduce pneumococcal vaccines in a bid to reduce the numbers contracting the potentially fatal disease.

MENINGITIS charities have repeated their call for all children to be vaccinated against a bug that can cause the disease and other life-threatening illnesses.

DOZENS of lives could be saved if the Government introduced a vaccine preventing deadly diseases such as meningitis, pneumonia and septicaemia.

I AM writing in response to your report (Irish Examiner, August 4) on meningitis survivor Aoife Murray from Co Westmeath who was taken ill with the disease in Medjugorje.

COLLEGE students are at high risk of contracting meningitis but are often unwilling to avail of free vaccines, according to experts.

Health chiefs in Britain have issued a meningitis alert after the deaths of seven pilgrims to Mecca.