New meningitis vaccination programme expected to save lives
Health chiefs have welcomed a new vaccination programme which will protect teenagers in Wolverhampton from meningitis and septicaemia. GPs will be inviting teenagers aged 17 and 18 – born between 1 September 1996 and 31 August 1997 – to come in for their vaccination, which will offer protection against inflammation of the brain and blood poisoning caused by four meningococcal strains.