Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/
Accessed 21 December 2013
Op/Ed
12/16/2013 @ 6:00AM
Meningitis Outbreaks Call For FDA Leadership. Don’t Hold Your Breath.
Henry I. Miller
http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2013/12/16/meningitis-outbreaks-call-for-fda-leadership-dont-hold-your-breath/
Excerpt
Vaccination is one of the most important advances in public health in recent centuries, and hundreds of vaccines have all but eradicated many of the infectious disease scourges of the past. But two recent college campus outbreaks of Meningitis B (MenB), which is caused by serotype B of a bacterium called Neisseria meningitidis, or meningococcus, show that more needs to be done. What we need right now is not scientific or technological ingenuity, but more enlightened and responsive government oversight…