The African meningitis belt is a region in sub-Saharan Africa where the rate of incidence of meningitis is very high. It extends from Senegal to Ethiopia...
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Meningococcal vaccine (redirect from Meningococcal meningitis vaccine)
they recommend that high risk groups should be immunized. In the African meningitis belt efforts to immunize all people between the ages of one and thirty...
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Meningococcal disease (redirect from Meningococcal meningitis)
epidemic meningitis. Endocarditis Pathogenic bacteria Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome African meningitis belt 2009–10 West African meningitis outbreak...
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Neisseria meningitidis (redirect from Neisseria meningitis)
individuals. In 2010, the Meningitis Vaccine Project introduced a vaccine called MenAfriVac in the African meningitis belt. It was made by generic drug...
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Medina during the Hajj or Umrah pilgrimages. For some countries in African meningitis belt, vaccinations prior to entry are not required, but highly recommended...
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Viviani S (June 2009). "Epidemic meningitis due to Group A Neisseria meningitidis in the African meningitis belt: a persistent problem with an imminent...
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January 2009, an annual risk in the African meningitis belt. A total of 13,516 people have been infected with meningitis, and 931 have died. Nigeria has been...
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The meningitis problem in that area is caused by a strain of meningitis called "meningitis A", which is present only in the African meningitis belt. In...
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MenAfriVac (category Meningitis)
elimination of deadly meningitis A disease in the African "meningitis belt". In 2013, only four laboratory-confirmed cases of meningitis A were reported by...
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and Peru; and outbreaks of meningococcal disease occurred in the African meningitis belt as well as Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ethiopia...
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