Study: (New Zealand) Government Delay Over Vaccine Led To Deaths

[HuckleB]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5807706/Govt-delay-over-vaccine-led-to-deaths

"Government delays in introducing a vaccine against meningococcal B during an epidemic in the 1990s led to "unnecessary and potentially avoidable deaths", new research says.

Research led by the University of Auckland says although the Health Ministry was fully briefed from 1996, it took another eight years for the MeNZB immunisation campaign to begin - at a point when the epidemic was already declining.

The effectiveness of the campaign was also not monitored properly, meaning it was impossible to know how much it contributed to the epidemic's end, the researchers said.

The research has been released weeks after a catch-up campaign was launched in Northland to vaccinate people against meningococcal C, which has killed three people in the region.

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[HuckleB]

1. Kick for saving lives.

[xchrom]

2. i missed this -- so i'll kick it. nt

[laconicsax]

3. Same here. n/t