World Meningitis Day on April 24 and World Immunization Awareness Week, which starts on the same day and runs through April 30, remind parents about vaccines available to protect their loved ones from meningitis and other vaccine-preventable illnesses.

Jamie Schanbaum, who survived bacterial meningitis in her sophomore year at The University of Texas at Austin, and Greg Williams the father of a Texas A&M student who died from it, both advocate for meningitis awareness & vaccination.

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