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Public Health England findings show the number of Men B cases dropped by 42% amongst under 1s since the introduction of the vaccine.

The Joint Committee of Vaccine and Immunisation (JCVI) has rejected the call made by 823,000 concerned individuals who signed the Men B petition, by deciding not to extend the vaccine to under 2s.

Boots have reintroduced a limited supply of the life-saving Men B vaccine for 2 to 21 year olds. The vaccine is only available through the NHS immunisation programme for babies born after 1 May 2015.

In response to yesterday’s parliamentary debate to extend the meningococcal B (Men B) vaccine Meningitis Now CEO Liz Brown said:

Today's debate directly reflects the concerns of the 820,000 people who read the Faye Burdett story and signed the biggest ever parliamentary petition to prevent another child suffering or dying from this devastating disease

As the next stage in our Beat it Now! campaign we’re calling on Government and GPs to extend the use of the meningococcal group B (Men B) vaccine to all children within a family where there has been a case of meningitis

We have welcomed today’s announcement from the Welsh Government of £7.7 million funding so all babies in the country can be vaccinated against Meningitis B

The latest issue of our News magazine, updating supporters on everything that’s been happening or is about to happen at Meningitis Now, is dropping onto doormats this week

An Alfreton man has taken on ’12 months of madness’ to say thank you for his daughter’s recovery from meningitis

Negotiations have finally been concluded with vaccine manufacturer GSK for life saving Meningococcal Group B (MenB) vaccine

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the Department of Health’s announcement that the UK’s first Meningitis B (MenB) vaccine will be in the childhood immunisation programme, subject to price negotiations

Eleven of our Young Ambassadors took our Beat it Now! campaign right to the heart of Government on the invitation of David Cameron.

Second anniversary and still no vaccine, in that time some 24 UK children under one – one a month – could have died of the disease.

We are delighted that the UK’s first Meningitis B vaccine will be swiftly rolled out after price negotiations resolve