New vaccine drives Africa meningitis cases to lowest in decade

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Children register for a meningitis vaccination at School for Midwives in El DaeinLONDON (Reuters) – Case numbers in Africa's meningitis season this year were the lowest in 10 years thanks to a cheap new vaccine designed to treat a type of the disease common in the so-called meningitis belt, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. The vaccine, called MenAfriVac, was developed with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation specifically for use against meningitis A, a type which causes regular epidemics in Africa. …

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