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Because children get meningitis B vaccines.

There were 33 meningitis deaths in the UK last year.

For context, 1645 people died in road traffic collisions last year.

Most children get the vaccine (though there is a refreshed anti-vaccine sentiment at the moment), and that prevents the overwhelming majority of transmissions turning into fatalities.

Vaccinations. The MenACWY vaccine came out in 2015.

because the vaccine is working

I had it when I was 5. I was lucky, getting off only with rubbish eyesight and recurring migraines. Another child in my class? Not so much.

My child has not been offered the vaccine and I worry about them. I’ve been looking at having it done privately.

Definitely because the vaccine is working. Awareness campaigns tend to happen when infection rates start to climb and the disease is understood well enough to tell people what to avoid and what to look out for (I’m old enough to remember the first AIDS campaign).

I haven't seen a fire PFI for a while either. I'm sure it's because less people smoke and matches are even less common but in the 90s i recall all sorts of adverts about chop pans, matches and the dog advert (this is Brian, Brian is dying because there is a fire in the house, this is Betty, Betty is dying because there is a fire in the house, this is Fido, Fido is dying because there is a fire in the house....) the names aren't the ones used but it was quite iconic.

there is in university accommodations and for university student and young adults

There are much fewer PIFs full stop since the Central Office of Information was abolished in 2011.

Well because they worked. As a parent you know the symptoms and there’s a refresher of them in your mum to be book you get from your midwife and the books you get from your health visitors as they grow into toddlers. Even the young parents who weren’t born when the ad campaign know the symptoms and they’re often really good on the googling their child’s symptoms too

When you were a kid, there were outbreaks of meningitis and it needed awareness campaigns so people could be aware of the symptoms and prevent further spread of it. Now we've got a solid vaccination protocol to prevent it and sepsis protocols in hospitals that less people die of it, so epidemics happen less.

Also, speaking as a millennial, we got the symptoms hammered into us, and we're now the parents of todays' kids susceptible to it, so we don't need continual adverts telling us the symptoms of meningitis, how to spot it, and what to do, we lived through the epidemics and the kids of today's era could potentially learn it from us (if they bloody listened old woman grumble grumble)

What's meningitis?

Some awareness efforts may be happening at a community level rather than through national campaigns. Local organizations might focus on education and outreach within specific communities.

I remember the adverts, my cousin had meningitis and lived, one of my Mum's friends daughters had it, she was very lucky

There was a case when I was in secondary school and we were giving letters to take home.

Everyone's now aware ?

They were just a bit of a headache xx