Meningitis vaccine beating all forms comes a step closer | Mail Online

Scientists are a step closer to creating a universal vaccine to protect against all strains of the killer bug that causes meningitis.

There are more than 90 strains of the streptococcus pneumoniae bug, which causes meningitis, septicaemia– or blood poisoning– and pneumonia.

It kills more than a million young children a year, mostly in developing countries. 

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