Doctors want every person in New Zealand who is under 20 to have the vaccination. This would mean they would not get the disease, and maybe die, or maybe have limbs amputated.

If everyone has the vaccination, it would stop the epidemic.

There is a lot of advertising on TV telling parents and telling children how important it is to have this injection. Some famous musicians like these are making the ads.

The doctors want children under five to get it from their family doctor, but children over five, will have the injections at school.

Doctors find it very hard to tell whether or not someone has meningitis. Often they cannot tell until the person has spots start to show, and by then it can be too late.

People die very quickly from meningococcal B.