The Lancet  
Aug 03, 2013  Volume 382  Number 9890  p367 – 478  e2
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Editorial
Meningitis B
The Lancet
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Invasive meningococcal disease is a serious global health threat that kills about one in 20 infected individuals. Meningitis B accounts for about 80% of cases of invasive meningococcal disease in high-income countries, 50% of whom are children younger than 2 years; it is the foremost cause of infant bacterial meningitis and severe sepsis in Europe.

Comment
The price of prevention: what now for immunisation against meningococcus B?
Richard Moxon, Matthew D Snape
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Meningococcal sepsis is one of the most dreaded bacterial infections: the death rate remains at about 5% and the effects for survivors include neurological damage, limb amputation, and widespread skin necrosis.1 There is a compelling case for prevention of meningococcal disease by immunisation. On July 24, 2013, in an interim position statement,2 the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) concluded that it cannot currently recommend a vaccine (4CMenB, licensed as Bexsero, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy) for use in the UK routine immunisation programme.