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Deadly meningitis strain virtually eliminated in much of Africa - study

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By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new vaccine has virtually eliminated meningitis A in 16 African countries, but children will remain vulnerable to the disease which can kill or cause severe brain damage, unless governments routinely immunise them, experts said on Tuesday. Some 237 million people have been vaccinated since 2010 in a one-off mass campaign across Africa's meningitis belt, which stretches from Senegal in the west to...

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