Two studies have found that young people who received a vaccine for meningitis have a lower rate of infection with gonorrhoea, which is caused by a related bacterium
Read more:The 4CMenB vaccine was introduced in Australia for people aged between 17 and 20 in 2019. Marshall’s team compared the rates of gonorrhoea in people who did or didn’t get the meningitis vaccine. This showed that receiving the two required doses of the vaccine reduced the chances of getting gonorrhoea by 33 per cent.
A similar study in the US, where the vaccine was introduced for 16 to 23-year-olds in New York and Philadelphia, found the effectiveness of the vaccine to be 40 per cent. “Even though the effectiveness is moderate rather than high, it still would see a really impactful reduction in gonorrhoea,” says Marshall.at Imperial College London and his colleagues found that it would be cost-effective to offer the meningitis vaccine to men who have sex with men if they are attending STI clinics, because they are at high risk for the infection. This would include those who test positive for gonorrhoea or say they have more than five sexual partners a year.
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