A baby of a friend of mine had their 12 week injections a few weeks ago and ended up getting viral meningitis from the vaccine and a stay in hospital. How common is this after the 12 week jabs? My LO had them today and I’m slightly freaking out about it
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The pneumococcal vaccine would have nothing to do with this- the pneumococcal vaccine at 12 weeks protects against some types of bacterial meningitis. It contains no live bacteria. If the child caught viral meningitis, then that’s been caught the same way any other virus is caught- it isn’t from the vaccine.

Thank you for that