Meningitis vaccine ‘could save dozens of lives’

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

The vaccine, which could save up to 132 lives annually in this country, was available for the past five years and was used in the North and other European states.

The Meningitis Research Foundation and the Meningitis Trust both demanded that a routine vaccination against Invasive Pneumococcal Disease was introduced as part of routine childhood immunisation.