A Vaccine for Meningitis B? ; Meningitis Uk Chief Executive, Steve Dayman, Who Lost His Baby Son to Meningitis, Explains Why He has High Hopes That a Vaccine Will Be Developed Within the Next 10 Years to Eradicate the Most Common Form of the Killer Disease

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Ten years ago Steve Dayman and his wife Gloria set up Meningitis UK to fund research into the disease after it claimed the life of their 14-month-old son Spencer. Spencer died in 1982 of a combination of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia.

At the time Mr Dayman was told it was unlikely that a way of eradicating it would be discovered in his lifetime. Undaunted he went on to help raise millions of pounds and now believes that a vaccine that will eradicate the disease is as little as 10 years away.

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A Vaccine for Meningitis B? ; Meningitis Uk Chief Executive, Steve Dayman, Who Lost His Baby Son to Meningitis, Explains Why He has High Hopes That a Vaccine Will Be Developed Within the Next 10 Years to Eradicate the Most Common Form of the Killer Disease

He says immunisation offering protection against 40 per cent of the Group B disease could arrive sooner, within about three years.

But Meningitis UK, the charity set up by Mr Dayman, has pledged to continue to raise money for research that will ...

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