Letitia Gallagher felt sick on Sunday and was dead from meningitis on Tuesday morning. Supplied Letitia Gallagher died from meningicoccal B in 2012. Brady said New Zealand had a targeted MenB vaccine after a mid-2000s outbreak in Northland, but nothing was available nationally. Ministry of Health pubic health director Caroline McElnay said it had a contingency stock of about 100 doses of MenB vaccine which was there in case of an outbreak. That was compared to 45 cases in 2014.The B strain was the most common, but the even-deadlier W strain was on the rise.

Source: Stuff November 07, 2018 00:35 UTC