Meningococcus - VEC Vaccine Notes | Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about meningococcus and the vaccines that protect against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Watch the episode to find out:

• Why meningococcus demonstrates the limits of focusing only on treatment and not prevention
• Death rates from meningococcal-induced meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord) and sepsis (bloodstream infection)
• The ages of greatest risk and why
• The types of lifelong effects that people can experience
• Why a meningococcal type B vaccine was more difficult to develop than vaccines against the other types (A, C, W, Y)
• A comparison between viral and bacterial meningitis

To learn more about meningococcus disease and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-mening.

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