Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jul 2019
Children in the UK are having their lives saved by a new Meningococcal B vaccine our government won’t fund
27 July 2019 - There is a vaccine for the Meningococcal B disease that’s killed two Australians this month and left many others in need of an organ transplant. It’s time our health system funded it.
The number of cases of deadly Meningococcal B disease has halved in babies in Britain after it introduced a vaccination that is still not funded in Australia despite two recent deaths.
Babies in the UK began receiving a free meningococcal B vaccine in 2015 and a new study has shown cases in infants aged one or less have plunged by 42%.
However, an Australian expert government committee has three times rejected a subsidy for the high cost vaccination.
