In world first, Nigeria introduces new 5-in-1 vaccine against meningitis

https://www.who.int/news/item/12-04-2024-in-world-first--nigeria-introduces-new-5-in-1-vaccine-against-meningitis?utm_campaign=+60336940&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term= To combat deadly meningitis outbreaks, Nigeria launched an effort to vaccinate one million people with a vaccine called Men5CV, which protects against five groups of the meningitis pathogen Neisseria meningitidis. The WHO recommended the vaccine for campaigns in the country, a part of “Africa’s meningitis belt,” based partly on positive interim results from a trial run by the NIAID-supported Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium (IDCRC).