A petition calling for the meningitis B immunisation programme to cover all children up to at least the age of 11 has received more than 700,000 signatures
Under-ones are most at risk from meningitis B, so when the immunisation programme was brought in – making the UK the first country in the world to offer the vaccine for free – it focused on babies. Immunisation programmes are often introduced in phases, and the cost of vaccinating all children would be huge.
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