UK: Infection rising despite vaccine (HIB)

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UK: Infection rising despite vaccine (HIB)

If it doesn't work, just keep giving more and more boosters Sheri

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3660660.stm

Infection rising despite vaccine

More people are contracting Hib infection despite a child vaccination

programme, government advisors warn.

Rates of the meningitis-causing bacteria among adults have reached

levels higher than before 1992, when routine vaccination of babies

started.

Rates in children are also rising, mainly among those immunised as

babies, according to Health Protection Agency (HPA) experts.

Booster jabs should reduce rates they told the British Medical Journal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3660660.stm