Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSThree in four teenagers unprotected against Meningitis C
Three quarters of UK children have no protection against meningitis C within seven years of vaccination, according to UK researchers.
The Oxford Vaccine Group, based at Oxford University, looked at 250 children aged between six and 12 who had been vaccinated against meningitis C.
They found only 25 per cent retained sufficiently high levels of the antibodies to confer personal protection against meningitis C within seven years of vaccination.
The findings were presented last week at a European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases conference.
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