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Vaccinate Please!
Purdue University and Indiana University announced starting in the fall semester, incoming students will be required to receive the meningitis B vaccine. (more…)
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National Drive
The first batch of Meningococcal C Vaccine arrives in Fiji so children from the ages of one to 19 years can have access to the vaccines.
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Vaccination Required
All schoolchildren entering seventh grade and before starting 12th grade in Maine must now be immunized against meningococcal infections. (more…)
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Reaching Out
World Meningitis Day is on April 24, which means take advantage of the information given out on this deadly disease. (more…)
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Another College
A Colgate student was diagnosed with bacterial meningococcal meningitis after being taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in Utica. (more…)
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Vaccinate First
A toddler has died after contracting Meningococcal B while a second child was taken to hospital. (more…)
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Listen
Dan Jarvis lost the majority of his hearing at 18 months old when he contracted meningococcal meningitis Now aged 36, he is 98.5% deaf but Dan doesn’t believe deafness…
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Same Serogroup
The same serogroup as the strain found during the recent Meningitis outbreak at University of Massachusetts & Smith College was confirmed by laboratory results.
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Extra Caution
Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) funded a study of 263 infant patients in the UK and Ireland because only half of babies with meningitis show tell-tale signs like a fever….
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Take Heed
Ojeda woke up in the hospital on June 10, 2014 after a week since he last remembered falling asleep in his own bed.
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