Qld students get better protection with new vaccine
Grade 10 Calvary Christian College student Zac Speet, 16, gets a Meningococcal vaccination from Nurse Julie Boxsell. Health and Ambulance Services Minister Cameron Dick last week visited Calvary Christian College to promote the program that allows 15 to 19-year-olds across the state to receive free vaccinations against four strains of meningococcal disease Mr Dick said […]
Vaccine shortage leads to death of young adult in the UK.
A heartbroken mother is pleading with parents to protect their children from a deadly strain of meningitis following the death of her 18-year-old daughter. Lauren Sandall died from meningitis just weeks after she was denied the life-saving vaccine at her local GP because supplies were too low. The 18-year-old, from Woodford Green in London, […]
Professor Fiona Stanley labels anti-vaccination campaigners ‘evil’
Professor Fiona Stanley with Ashleigh Langoulant and her father and Chairman of Meningitis Centre Australia Bruce Langoulant Parents who fail to vaccinate their children against deadly diseases may not be motivated to act until more children are killed or severely disabled, Professor Fiona Stanley warns. WA’s leading child expert, a patron for Meningitis Centre Australia, said […]
5th meningococcal case in Tassie for 2017
A meningococcal case has been reported in Tasmania in April, the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System shows. It is the fifth diagnosed case of invasive meningococcal disease for 2017. Four cases have occurred in the South, and one in the North, Public Health acting director Dr Mark Veitch said. “Cases ranged in age from one […]
Mum’s instincts saves baby Ted against rare strain of meningococcal
For Natalie Nowak, all it took was one look into her son Ted’s blue eyes and she instantly knew something terrible was wrong with her baby. There were no warning signs, symptoms or even the distinctive purple meningococcal rash. It was her mother’s instinct to take her five-month-old straight to hospital in January that ultimately […]
Meningococcal: Baby Archie Roberts’ miracle survival
MENINGOCOCCAL struck Archie Roberts out of the blue and ravaged his tiny body so badly that his parents were told he would not survive. But a video has captured the exact moment a miracle occurs. Against all odds Archie, now nine months, fights his way back from a deathly sleep on life support to give […]
South Australian toddler dies, meningococcal suspected
A South Australian toddler has died from a suspected case of meningococcal disease. SA Health says the 18-month-old died at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide on Sunday afternoon. The authority will run tests on Monday to confirm if meningococcal – a form of meningitis with flu-like symptoms – was responsible for the death. […]
Eighth WA case of meningococcal disease reported for 2017
The Department of Health today reported that a young child has been discharged from hospital after being diagnosed with serogroup B meningococcal disease. Meningococcal disease is an uncommon, life-threatening illness caused by a bacterial infection of the blood and/or the membranes that line the spinal cord and brain, and occasionally of other sites, such as […]
Five month wait for Meningococcal B-strain vaccination
SOUTH Australian families desperate to safeguard their children’s health are being forced to wait up to five months for their children to be vaccinated against the deadly meningoco ccal B disease. The Advertiser can reveal one Adelaide pharmacy has a waiting list of 125 people wanting the Bexsero vaccine, as global demand for the drug […]
Meningococcal B vaccine could soon be available in Australia
A FREE vaccine for a deadly strain of meningococcal could soon be available in Australia following a decision by the federal government to fast-track its consideration. Health Minister Greg Hunt has ordered the nation’s chief medical officer consider whether vaccinations for meningococcal B strains should be placed on the taxpayer-funded schedule after it was added […]
