Low vaccination rates for meningococcal disease have health authorities in Northland fearing the worst, with winter on the way. Despite an intensive emergency programme over summer, they've managed to immunise only 63 percent of those eligible for free shots. And they say anti-vax campaigners are partly to blame.
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