Meningitis
(asked on 23rd March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children died of meningitis B in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 26th March 2015
The table below shows the confirmed number of deaths from meningitis and septicaemia caused by meningococcal B in children aged up to and including 14 years of age in England and Wales for the last five years for which figures are available (2009 to 2013) sourced from enhanced surveillance conducted by Public Health England.
Age | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
Total | 31 | 26 | 26 | 14 | 10 |