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Affordable and effective vaccine brings Africa close to elimination of meningitis A

11 Nov 2015

For a century, epidemics of meningococcal A meningitis, a bacterial infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, have swept across 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa killing and disabling...

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