| Doc Title | Preventing Meningitis |
| Link | Click here for the original resource http://... |
| Author(s) | Department of Health |
| Abstract | Preventing Meningitis provides information about meningitis, its symptoms and the campaigns that have been organised to help fight the disease. It also includes information about meningococcal septicaemia, the more life-threatening form of meningococcal disease
Contents include: -
· What is meningitis
· Types of meningitis
· Recognising meningococcal disease
· Raising awareness among young people and students
· The meningitis C campaign
· Reducing the impact of group C meningococcal infection in young
people
· Group B meningococcal infection
· Group A and Group W135 strains of meningococcal disease
· Travellers to Hajj or Umrah
· What else can be done?
· Links to other information such as immunisation website, Meningitis
Trust, Meningitis Research Foundation and HPA
Individual content pages can be accessed and printed out for professionals to use as a guide when talking to patients or the general public on specific topics. |
| Publisher | Department of Health (DH) |
| Source | Department of Health (DH) |
| Publication Type | Web directory |
| Category | Control, Management, Prevention, Public information |
| Level of Evidence | Evidence cited |
| Coverage | National |
| Format | Pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Rights | Free |
| Date of publishing | 11/07/2005 |
| Date of last revision by publisher | 02/09/2007 |
| Date of posting | 11/28/2006 |
| Date of last review by us | 06/14/2010 |