[Editorial] Costs, compassion, and the case for vaccination (Lancet Infectious Diseases)

If you want an overview of the major political issues in the UK, the government`s petitioning website is a good place to start. Calls for action on Islamic State, immigration, and the National Health Service (NHS) have all garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures. But the most popular current petition--indeed, the issue that has received the most signatures ever on the site--concerns meningitis B vaccination.