PATH announced that Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria will MenAfriVac™ meningitis vaccine campaigns in December.  These countries in Africa’s meningitis belt are “poised to vaccinate 22 million people against epidemic meningitis next month” and become the fourth, fifth, and sixth countries to introduce the vaccine. MenAfriVac™ targets the strain of meningitis that has plagued sub-Saharan Africa with deadly and debilitating epidemics for more than a century.

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