DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH STATEMENT ON MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH STATEMENT ON MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE

The Department of Health would like to assure the public that all the usual necessary measures were immediately taken in connection with the last case of meningococcal disease. There is, therefore, no reason to withhold children from attending school.

There is no vaccine licensed for use against the predominant type of meningococcal disease in Malta (type B). The indications for use of currently licensed vaccines against meningococcal disease (types A & C and types A, C, Y & W-135) are limited to travellers going to high endemic areas and to household contacts of cases when directed by the Department of Public Health.