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Re introduce the MenC vaccine for babies aged 12 weeks of age.

Submitted on Wednesday 22nd November 2017

Published on Friday 1st December 2017

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 1st June 2018

Signatures: 5,850

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Bradford ~ England ~ NHS ~ Public Health England

Petition Action

Re introduce the MenC vaccine for babies aged 12 weeks of age.

Petition Details

From July 2016, the MenC vaccine for 12 week old babies was discontinued from the NHS childhood vaccination programme.

Additional Information

In a letter to Public Health England in March 2016 The Joint Committee on Vaccination (JCVI) recommended that infants aged 12 weeks no longer require the vaccination against meningococcal serogroup C (MenC) due to the success of the immunisation programme that started in 1999.
One case is one too many and today there is a baby girl in Bradford fighting for her life after contracting MenC at the age of 10 months.


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