Meningococcal B vaccine (VA-MENGOC-BC)
Vacuna contra el meningococo B (VA-MENGOC-BC)
- Date
- 1987-1989 · confidence high
- Place
- Finlay Institute, Havana, Cuba
- Credited to
- Concepción Campa Huergo and the Finlay Institute
- People
- 👤 Concepción Campa Huergo1951–
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
The first effective vaccine against serogroup B meningococcus, based on outer membrane vesicles. It halted Cuba's epidemic of the 1980s.
Estimated efficacy of around 83% in the 1987-1989 trial.
What it led to
- mass vaccination in Cuba
- outer-membrane-vesicle vaccines (Norway, New Zealand)