Meningococcal B vaccination also cuts risk of gonorrhoea, study suggests

People vaccinated with an outer membrane vesicle (OMV) group B meningococcal vaccine showed a 30% lower risk of gonorrhoea diagnosis in a large study, suggesting that vaccination provides a new approach for preventing gonorrhoea.1

Although very different diseases, an 80-90% genetic match exists between the bacterium that causes meningococcal disease (Neisseria meningitidis) and the gonorrhoea pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Observational surveillance data have previously suggested a decline in gonorrhoea after introducing …