-Caveat Lector- http://www.irelandonsunday.com/ Brain bug kills vaccine girl (15) By: Eugene Masterson and Ruth O'Callaghan A YOUNG Dublin girl has died from meningitis … just weeks after she was inoculated against the dreaded disease. Laura Ryan (15) was buried yesterday. She succumbed to the killer B strain of the virus only days previously. The healthy teenager had been inoculated, along with thousands of other students, against the C strain of the disease just before Christmas. A major nationwide drive against Meningitis C has been underway for the past several weeks. Between 85 percent and 90 percent of students in second level schools have received the vaccine. But the Eastern Health Board said there is no vaccine available for the particularly severe B strain of the virus and warned parents to be vigilant. Every parent's nightmare turned into reality for David and Frances Ryan when Laura developed the classic symptoms of the disease last week and was rushed to Dublin's Beaumont Hospital. Laura, from Seabury in Malahide, died within hours of being admitted to the hospital on Tuesday night. Her parents and only sister Fiona were the chief mourners at yesterday's funeral Mass where schoolfriends from Malahide Community School broke down as Laura's white coffin left the Church of the Sacred Heart. Among the packed congregation was 2FM broadcaster Gerry Ryan, who is closely related to Laura's family. Laura is the first person to die this year from bacterial meningitis. But her death is the fourth teenage meningitis death in the Malahide-Portmarnock area since 1998. Last year, two girls from Portmarnock died of Meningitis B and in 1998 four-year-old Ben Quinn, also from Seabury, also died. The Department of Health is to launch a new campaign in April to target students who have not been vaccinated. The national vaccination campaign began in October and has already been successful in reducing the rates of the deadly disease in children. The disease has almost been eliminated in Britain only a year after the vaccine was first introduced. Just three cases of Meningitis C were reported here in November - the lowest figure recorded for a number of years in this country. Meningitis specialist Dr Mary McCafferty told Ireland on Sunday that experts in Holland are currently battling to find a vaccine for the B strain, which should protect against 80 percent of its varieties. She said the A strain is rarely found outside certain parts of the world and is predominant in north Africa and occasionally found in Russia, but rarely found in northern Europe. She said on average between between 10 and 25 people die in Ireland each year from the disease. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
