Meningitis: Children

(asked on 13th March 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
(Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children have contracted meningitis in each of the last five years; and how many of those children have (a) died and (b) survived.

Answered by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford Portrait
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
This question was answered on 21st March 2017

Public Health England (PHE) collects data on laboratory confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease in England which is caused by the Neisseria meningitis bacteria, and is a major cause of bacterial meningitis and septicaemia in children. The following table summarises the number of cases and deaths in children younger than 15 years over the past five years.

Number of laboratory confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in children less than 15 years of age in England by year: 2011/12 to 2015/16

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

Cases of IMD

424

440

320

355

376

Registered deaths of IMD cases1

16

15

11

26

13

Note:

1. Deaths registered with the United Kingdom Office for National Statistics attributable to IMD and linked to confirmed cases of IMD

2. Source: Health Protection Report

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