The province becomes the second to fund the vaccine after meningococcal B killed three students in less than two years
students“We’ve looked at the emerging evidence,” Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer Robert Strang told reporters Thursday. “We now have it on substantive and sufficient evidence that this group in these very particular settings are at increased risk. … We’re hopeful other provinces will make similar decisions.”
becomes the second province to fund the vaccine after PEI last month expanded its Men-B vaccine program to include students attending university and staying in residence, acknowledging the higher risk of young adultsDr. Strang said medical evidence shows that people coming into congregate settings such as dormitories or military barracks for the first time are more at risk of contracting the rare but potentially lethal disease.
Despite the deaths of three university students from the disease, Dr. Strang said the incidence rate of Men B in Nova Scotia is not above average.A month later, there was an outbreak at Dalhousie University. Eighteen-year-old Maria Gaynor, a first-year kinesiology student from Kemptville, Ont., was found dead in her dormitory.
Kai Matthews, a 19-year-old Acadia University student, from Tantallon, N.S., died of the disease in June, 2021 – six years after an outbreak at the school left one young woman dead.
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