The school based immunisation team will be visiting the College to vaccinate the Year 10 cohort for Meningococcal ACWY.

Individuals aged between 15 and 19 years within the WA community are being targeted to receive this vaccine in order to reduce the spread of the disease.

This age group experiences some of the highest rates of Meningococcal carriage and illness, once infected they can transmit the bacteria to people who are at increased risk of infection, including young children.

It is expected that providing the Meningococcal ACWY vaccine to this age group will reduce the spread of this potentially life threatening infection within the WA community.

Only boys for whom permission has been provided will be vaccinated.

For more information please follow the link below to the Health department website:

www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/JM/Meningococccal-disease

Please direct any queries to Fiona Richmond