Nigeria has taken delivery of only 500,000 doses out of 1.3 million doses of vaccines for meningitis type C strain outbreak.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), polysaccharide vaccines which are in short supply & are being phased out in other parts of the world. The more effective and long-lasting conjugate vaccines are not readily accessible for outbreak response in the region.

WHO meningitis expert, Dr. Olivier Ronveaux, said: “The very limited supply of vaccines to control outbreaks of meningitis C can affect our ability to control these epidemics…”.

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