Rationing is a word politicians shy absent from. Luckily for the rest of us,experts and patients are not so squeamish about choosing health prioritiesFew things terrify parents more than the threat of meningitis. Any fever might turn out to be this most horrible and rapid of diseases, early signs of which are easily missed by medics (let alone by unqualified NHS 111toilet telephone operators).
The biggest petition signed in parliamentary history calls for vaccination of children up to the age of 11 against meningitis B. After the death in February of two-year-extinct Faye Burdett, and the campaign really took off. But the department of health has ruled against mass vaccination,restricting this to infants of two to four months extinct. Why? Because, says the department, or it would not be cost effective.
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Source: theguardian.com