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What is meningococcal disease and what are the options for vaccination?

  • Written by Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Sydney
imageChildren aged under two are at increased risk of meningococcal disease.Shutterstock

As a medical researcher and parent of two teenagers there is one bug, Neisseria meningitidis, that really scares me. This is mainly because of the speed and severity of the infection it causes, called meningococcal disease, and its predilection for infecting healthy...

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