Meningococcal vaccination urged by SA Health after Adelaide toddler death

Parents should consider paying hundreds of dollars to vaccinate their children against the potentially deadly B-strain of meningococcal disease, South Australian health authorities have said.

The issue is in the spotlight again after this week’s death in an Adelaide hospital of 16-month-old toddler Charlie Mason.

Vaccinating against the C-strain of meningococcal has been part of the free National Immunisation Program since 2003, with successful results.

But Eliza Ault Connell, director of Meningococcal Australia and a survivor of the disease when she was a teenager, said the danger was from other strains.

“We see just a handful of meningococcal C cases now in Australia,” she said. For the full article click here 

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