Menjugate
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Menjugate ® (Chiron) Injection, powder for
reconstitution, capsular polysaccharide antigen of Neisseria meningitidis group C
(conjugated to
Corynebacterium diphtheriae protein), adsorbed onto aluminium hydroxide
[2009
Feb meningitis C vaccine: Menjugate]
Questions over vaccine safety More than 60,000 doses of the vaccine,
which is offered to all four-month-old babies, could be contaminated with the
hospital-acquired infection – the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium – and a third
of these had already been sent to vaccination clinics before officials became
aware of the problem.DOH: MENINGITIS C VACCINE
Meningitis C vaccine damage (media
stories UK)
Meningitis Vaccine under Scrutiny in UK (2001)