Saeed Kamali Dehghan Thu 25 May 2023 00.00 EDT An effective, affordable meningitis vaccine has been successfully tested in Africa, raising hopes for the elimination of a disease that kills 250,000 people a year. The NmCV-5 vaccine, developed by the Serum Institute of India and global health organisation Path, will protect against the five main meningococcal strains...
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Threat of untreatable gonorrhea could be tackled using an existing meningitis vaccine
by Lancet Credit: CDC Meningitis vaccines could help improve protection against gonorrhea amid rising cases globally and increasing bacterial resistance to drugs used to treat the infection, according to findings from three linked papers published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) which, if untreated, can lead to serious health conditions,...