IRELAND: "Two meningitis deaths" Parents should check children have Men-B vaccine" -HSE

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The HSE is urging parents to ensure their children have had the Men-B vaccines in Ireland following the recent discovery of 4 cases of meningitis / encephalitis. 4 cases have been classified while two patients have died.

The Men-B vaccine is given to children aged 2 and 4 months and to older children when they enter secondary school. Dr Lucy Jessop, Director of the HSE National Immunization Office, explained the symptoms to look out for.

Early symptoms of meningitis around the brain include fever, headache, neck stiffness, and sometimes discomfort from light. But along with diarrhea, muscle aches and pains in the abdomen, fever and cold hands and feet, sometimes people may experience pinprick pain, blood, or common blisters.

Those who do not have Men-B vaccines should take the necessary steps

Those who do not have Men-B vaccines should take the necessary steps

When your child is in 1st year of secondary school, they will be offered a meningococcal ACWY booster vaccination.

Your child will have been offered the MenC vaccine in infancy. Protection against meningococcal C disease reduces over time so a booster dose of MenACWY vaccine is recommended for children in First year of secondary school and age equivalent special school and home-schooled students to provide additional protection against meningococcal C disease.

There has been an increase of other types of meningococcal disease in Ireland in the past few years. The MenACWY (meningococcal ACWY) vaccine protects your child against meningococcal disease caused by meningococcal C and also meningococcal types A, W and Y.

Meningococcal disease is a serious illness which can cause meningitis (inflammation of the lining around the brain), septicaemia (blood poisoning) and lead to death.

The onset of meningococcal disease can be very quick. The symptoms include fever, stiff neck, headache, joint pains, and a rash.

Meningococcal disease may occur at any age but the highest rate of disease occurs in children under 5 years of age, especially children under one year of age. The next highest risk group are young people aged 15-19 years.

This vaccine will be given by a HSE doctor or nurse to students during the second or third term in first year of secondary school along with the second dose of HPV vaccine.

If a student misses their immunisation in school, the HSE will arrange for the student to be vaccinated at a HSE clinic.

In Ireland, all the recommended childhood vaccines listed in the schools immunisation programme are free.

Vaccines: https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/immunisation/

Meningitis please visit: https://www.meningitis.org/

Meningitis and septicaemia in children and babies : https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/meningitis-septicaemia-children-babies/

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