Meningitis: Children

(asked on 28th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children (a) contracted and (b) died of meningitis B in each of the last five years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 17th April 2018

Public Health England collects data on laboratory confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease which is a major cause of bacterial meningitis in England. This does not distinguish between invasive meningococcal disease presentation as meningitis or septicaemia.

The number of invasive meningococcal B infections laboratory reports in England by age group and epidemiological year, 1998/99-2016/17 can be accessed here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/664857/Table_3_invasive_meningococcal_b_infections_lab_reports_England_by_agegroup_epiyear.pdf

Data for 2016/17 are provisional.

Data on the number of deaths from meningitis B are not collected in the format requested.

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