Kids, Germs and Day Care; A Meningitis Vaccine for Africa

A research team looked at data from a large study. That study followed the health of a group of Canadian children for almost their first ten years of life. The families must go to their job and their child in home or kindergarden so this childen meet germs then their life's first year.Some diseases can be prevented by vaccines. For example;  meningococcal A, hepatitis B, chicken pox etc. Also, their old invalidity has been a vaccines for ther. But meningococcal A is different to others. This bacterial form of meningitis can cause brain damage and death.   Last year, an outbreak across sub-Saharan Africa killed more than five thousand people. For example; meningococcal A. This bacterial form of meningitis can cause brain damage and death. Major epidemics strike Africa every seven to fourteen years. Children and young adults are the hardest hit. Health workers launched the new vaccine in Burkina Faso in West Africa. There are twenty-five countries along Africa's so-called meningitis belt from Senegal to Ethiopia. The hope is that people in all twenty-five countries will be protected against the disease by twenty-fifteen.