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MenACWY teenage meningitis vaccine programme drives herd immunity across all ages

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Researchers from the University of Oxford have today reported findings from a large-scale study that examined the impact of the UK’s MenACWY vaccination programme on the carriage of meningitis bacteria in the throats of UK teenagers.

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