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World Meningitis Day today 24 April, and the best strategy to fight any disease – especially when it comes to meningococcal disease, which progresses rapidly and is potentially fatal in both infancy and adolescence, is vaccination. By Natassa N. Spagadorou Vaccination helps not only to treat meningococcal disease but also to reduce asymptomatic carriers, as stated by the pharmaceutical GSK, on the occasion of today's World Day, and adds: "At first 30 years of life a person experiences approx 10 stretcher incidents. In our country there are vaccines that protect against 4 serogroups (A,C,W,Y) of the bacteria that cause it 10% of incidents, while the vaccine that protects against serogroup B, which causes the majority of incidents in Europe as well as in Greece, has been circulating in our country since 2014". Meanwhile let's remember, that a new case of school meningitis in Chios, noted on 15 Of March, which was added to 8 cases of meningitis that have occurred in our country since the beginning of the year. The serial with the Meningitis B vaccine Noteworthy, the Meningitis B vaccine has not yet been included in the National Immunization Program and will not be included, as well as the Vaccination Committee as well as the political leadership of the Ministry of Health, it has been decided that the incidents in our country are very few (και το πρόβλημα το δημοσιονομικό πολύ μεγάλο για να αντέξει η χώρα μας την αποζημίωση). Continue at source ....
World Meningitis Day today 24 April, and the best strategy to fight any disease – especially when it comes to meningococcal disease, which progresses rapidly and is potentially fatal in both infancy and adolescence, is vaccination. By Natassa N. Spagadorou Vaccination helps not only to treat meningococcal disease but also to reduce asymptomatic carriers, as stated by the pharmaceutical GSK, on the occasion of today's World Day, and adds: "At first 30 years of life a person experiences approx 10 stretcher incidents. In our country there are vaccines that protect against 4 serogroups (A,C,W,Y) of the bacteria that cause it 10% of incidents, while the vaccine that protects against serogroup B, which causes the majority of incidents in Europe as well as in Greece, has been circulating in our country since 2014". Meanwhile let's remember, that a new case of school meningitis in Chios, noted on 15 Of March, which was added to 8 cases of meningitis that have occurred in our country since the beginning of the year. The serial with the Meningitis B vaccine Noteworthy, the Meningitis B vaccine has not yet been included in the National Immunization Program and will not be included, as well as the Vaccination Committee as well as the political leadership of the Ministry of Health, it has been decided that the incidents in our country are very few (και το πρόβλημα το δημοσιονομικό πολύ μεγάλο για να αντέξει η χώρα μας την αποζημίωση). Continue at source ....