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Bacterial Meningitis Vaccine For At-Risk Infants Recommended By CDC Panel

submitted by agwartney on October 26, 2012
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Tags: bacterial meningitis , CDC , children , fungal , infant , vaccine
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted on Wednesday to recommend the use of GlaxoSmithKline's newly approved vaccine for bacterial meningitis in babies at increased risk of the infection.

The vote is not related to the ongoing outbreak of fungal meningitis that has been linked to tainted steroid injections and has so far killed 24 people.

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