Meningitis vaccine is withdrawn
Melanie Defries
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
More than 60,000 doses of the meningitis C vaccine, offered to all four-month-old babies, have been withdrawn from doctors' surgeries around the UK following fears that they may have been contaminated with a blood poisoning bacterium.
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