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Preventing meningitis

• 1. What is meningitis
• 2. Types of meningitis
• 3. Recognising meningococcal disease
• 4. Improving recognition
• 5. Protecting young children
• 6. Raising awareness among young people and students
• 7. The meningitis C campaign
• 8. Reducing the impact of group C meningococcal infection in young people
• 9. Group B meningococcal infection
• 10. Group A and Group W135 strains of meningococcal disease
• 11. Travellers to Hajj or Umrah
• 12. Links