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18 November 2011

Countries with high or intermediate endemic rates of meningococcal disease encouraged to introduce large scale vaccination programmes

In a position paper, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record today, WHO recommends that countries with high or intermediate endemic rates of meningococcal disease and countries with frequent epidemics introduce large scale vaccination programmes, using meningococcal conjugate vaccines. In these countries, the meningococcal vaccine may be administered through routine immunization programmes and supplementary immunization activities, for example during disease outbreaks.