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A petition calling for the meningitis B vaccine to be given to all children, at least up to age 11 years, has gained a record number of signatoriesfollowing the high profile case of a two-year-old child who died from the infection and whose parents believed they should have received the vaccine. So what is meningitis B and why is the vaccine for it only given to babies under the age of one?

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