One of the largest petitions ever to have gone before UK parliament, after it attracted 823,349 signatures, brought about the eventual publication of a report into how vaccines are funded.
The story broke into the public sphere after the case of Faye Burdett, a two year old who died after contracting meningitis B. She had been deemed, by the government’s vaccination program for the virus, to be too old to receive protection and her parents subsequently campaigned to have the age of vaccination raised to 11 years old.
