18 July 2018 - Meningococcal B vaccine will be added to the national vaccination program if medical experts recommend it, the federal government says.

Labor Leader Bill Shorten on Tuesday offered to work with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to improve access to meningococcal B vaccine, following the recent death of a Hobart teen from a meningococcal infection.

“Labor has been calling on your government to protect Australian children by making sure they are vaccinated against meningococcal B disease since we first wrote to you in November 2016,” Mr Shorten wrote in a letter to Mr Turnbull.

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