Nigeria Begins Rolling Out New Meningitis Vaccine

Reuters (4/13, Adetayo) reported, “Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out the ‘revolutionary’ new Men5CV vaccine against meningitis, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.” The country “is one of the hotspots of the deadly disease in Africa. Last year, a 50% rise in annual cases was reported across 26 African countries regarded as meningitis hyperendemic countries, according to the WHO.” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “Nigeria’s rollout brings us one step closer to our goal to eliminate meningitis by 2030.”