Dakar — The UN World Health Organization's meningitis vaccine stockpile programme has already tapped into its inventory, weeks before the worst of the deadly illness's peak season.
"These requests [from governments for vaccines] typically come in at week 12 [end March]," said WHO's Alejandro Costa with the Epidemic Readiness and Interventions team. "But this year we have already received four requests from Nigeria."
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