{"id":7897,"date":"2015-03-21T19:57:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T17:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2015-03-21T19:57:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T17:57:43","slug":"meningitis-b-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7897","title":{"rendered":"Meningitis B Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes the most shocking things in the news cause the fewest ripples. Today we learn that for more than a year children have been dying or suffering severe consequences of this dread disease, which include brain damage and even limb loss, when a perfectly good vaccine is available to stop the spread of the illness with over 90% success in extensive trials, now complete. The delay is an argument over the cost of the\u00a0doses between the government and the manufacturer. \u00a0Talks are &#8216;ongoing&#8217; and agreement is expected &#8216;soon&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is incomprehensible to this blog how this degree of callous insensitivity in public affairs can exist when the welfare and lives of children are at stake. The argument ranges between a fiver or a tenner. It is also a mystery how it is people suffer the squirming \u00a0cauldron of buck passing quangos and spineless ministers that our system of government has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the most shocking things in the news cause the fewest ripples. Today we learn that for more than a year children have been dying or suffering severe consequences of this dread disease, which include brain damage and even limb loss, when a perfectly good vaccine is available to stop the spread of the illness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7899,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}