Internal memo says Northland DHB had asked Govt for vaccination programme for months.

Yesterday the Government announced an urgent vaccination programme for Northland.

Northland doctors and emergency departments are on alert for meningococcal disease

None of the six Auckland cases were related to camps on Motutapu Island.

A meningococcal disease strain that's killed six this year may become dominant form.

"Don't hesitate. You don't have time." Northland mum warns other parents.

Girl is in a moderate condition in hospital.

Toddlers immunised during the last epidemic now need a new dose as adolescents.

Six Kiwis have died from a new strand of meningococcal disease this year.

Expert says earlier antibiotics would have boosted Zachary Gravatt's chances.

Doctor was at Japanese restaurant when emergency call about meningococcal case came.

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Health authorities concerned and say more people should be vaccinated against the disease.

Jamieka McCarthy Harford died of meningococcal disease hours after her wedding.

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Hundreds of people in Auckland and Otago are being given preventive antibiotics

Mount Aspiring College's principal says the school will try to continue with business as usual.

The parents of a 20-year-old student, who died tragically at the weekend from meningitis, have warned people to be wary of the disease's symptoms.

Close contacts of an Otago Polytechnic student who died at the weekend from meningitis have been offered antibiotics to reduce their risk of catching the disease.

Left a quadriplegic and severely brain damaged after a failed meningitis diagnosis, two-year-old William Burton is smiling again.

After 60 days and 4000km of sometimes "horrendous" Pacific Ocean seas, two women have rowed from Los Angeles to Waikiki, Hawaii, and raised money for charities.

The family of Zachary Gravatt, who died of meningococcal disease at Auckland City Hospital, have received a payment "in recognition of their losses".

Four health workers involved in the care of a medical student who died at Auckland City Hospital in 2009 after a wrongful diagnosis can now be named.

Kiwi babies look likely to get free vaccinations against chickenpox and rotavirus later this year - up to six years after Australia.

A three-year-old boy who was diagnosed with meningococcal C has been transferred from Starship Children's Hospital to Middlemore for plastic surgery.