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New vaccine may be the answer to deadly meningitis epidemics
Jun 9 2007, Irani

The already poverty-and-drought-hit West Africa witnesses the sufferings of 25,000 to 2,00,000 people from meningitis epidemic every year.

Its spatial distribution is thus named “Meningitis Belt” — and are said to be closely linked to climatic...

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