Atetravalentmeningococcalmeningitisvaccine (licensedin the United States) and a heptavalent vaccine protecting againstmeningitisA and C (to belicensed in 2007);
As well as the annual flu nasal spray, the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation has recommended that S3 girls and boys also be vaccinated against meningococcalC.
In the first nine months of 1999, before the immunisation campaign started, there were 551 confirmed cases of group Cmeningococcal infection and 47 deaths.