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Meningitis UK

(UK)
http://www.meningitisUK.org/
Meningitis UK has a single focus - to fund lifesaving research into finding a vaccine to eradicate meningitis.

Sadly, the disease is often incredibly difficult to detect as the symptoms can be hard to distinguish from everyday ailments such as the common cold or flu, plus there are occasions when people show no or very few symptoms. For these reasons, we believe that the only way to eradicate the disease completely is through the development of a preventative vaccine.

Our 'Search 4 a Vaccine Campaign' launched in April 2007, aims to raise £7 million over the next seven years to help fund cutting-edge research to develop a vaccine against Meningitis B - the one type of meningitis in the UK for which there is currently no vaccine and which causes almost 90% of all cases.