New Vaccination
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Young children are to be offered better protection against septicaemia and pneumococcal meningitis with the introduction of a new vaccine this spring.
Public health minister Gillian Merron said the replacement vaccine would be introduced into the routine childhood immunisation programme.It will follow the same three -dose schedule that is currently used, with jabs at two, four and 13 months old.
