A shortage of meningitis C vaccine is threatening to jeopardise the ability to cope with a potential outbreak of the disease in Africa, international public health organisations, including the World Health Organisation, have warned.
A Meningitis A vaccine introduced in 2010, MenAfriVac, has dramatically reduced incidence of that strain but type C infections have been increasing and a cheap equivalent that would protect against meningitis C, among other strains, is still years away.