MenB vaccine offers men no protection from gonorrhoea, claims major study
The Meningitis B vaccine does not prevent gonorrhoea infections despite being offered to at-risk men, scientists say.
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"It was important to consider a range of evidence."
— Dr Mary Ramsay , Academic
"The results were disappointing but should not be seen as the end of a search for a vaccine."
— Dr Odile Harrison , Academic
"If the evidence has changed, the approach has to change too."
— Taku Mukiwa , Activist
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Director of public health programmes at UKHSA UK.
Associate professor at the University of Oxford's Population Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit.
Head of health programmes at the sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust.
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The Meningitis B vaccine does not prevent gonorrhoea infections despite being offered to at-risk men, scientists say.
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