From Section 4 of the Report on the Canada Vigilance Database Bexsero® was approved for use in Canada in January of 2014 and first sold in Canada in February that year according to Health Canada’s … [Read more...]
Meningococcal Diseases and Vaccine
Updated March, 2011 Meningococcal Diseases are associated with the bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, also referred to as meningococcus, and include the invasive diseases, meningitis and blood … [Read more...]
Meningococcal Disease Outbreaks in Canada 2000-2001
During outbreaks of meningococcal disease in various regions of Canada, we were flooded with requests for information about the disease, the vaccines used in Canada and concerns about adverse … [Read more...]
Canadian Parents Worried About Meningitis
From VRAN Newsletter May, 2001 Since the beginning of the meningitis outbreak in Alberta over a year ago, VRAN has been inundated with phone calls and emails from worried parents seeking … [Read more...]
Meningitis Vaccine Failure
Source: Healthmall.com A mass vaccination campaign against meningitis in Quebec in the early 1990s proved useless in protecting infants who were the most at risk of contracting the disease, a … [Read more...]
