The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Apr 2016 Volume 16 Number 4 p385-506 e34-e63
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/issue/current

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Editorial
Costs, compassion, and the case for vaccination
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00139-0
Summary
If you want an overview of the major political issues in the UK, the government’s petitioning website is a good place to start. Calls for action on Islamic State, immigration, and the National Health Service (NHS) have all garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures. But the most popular current petition—indeed, the issue that has received the most signatures ever on the site—concerns meningitis B vaccination.

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