27 Nov 2018

Meningitis vaccine for Northland - analysis

From Morning Report, 8:16 am on 27 November 2018

Health officials are not recommending vacinnations against a deadly strain of meningitis nationwide. In Northland they are gearing up to vaccinate 20,000 children and teenagers before Christmas. It's part of urgent bid to halt an outbreak of deadly meningitis that has killed three people there in the past six months. RNZ health correspondent Karen Brown joins Guyon Espiner with the details.