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Community Effort
Many families in the Hikurangi community were on high alert after the death of a local girl of meningococcal W last year. Many people could…
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Second Case
A second student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick was hospitalized & diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. The first student had serogroup B meningococcal disease (MenB)…
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Too Late
Alexis Albert died in July after contracting meningococcal disease six days after she celebrated her seventh birthday. Her mother Rowshae said, “I was actually quite…
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Don’t Give Up
In November 2008, Jamie was hanging with friends on campus in Austin, Texas but 14 hours later ended up in the emergency room after she developed flu-like symptoms.
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Policy Change
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is going through regulatory steps for a potential change. First, the meningococcal vaccine may soon join the…
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Bad Trip
Patryk Jarczak, 18, fell ill just a day after arriving in the Emirates on a week-long trip with his parents and eight-year-old brother from Poland. Patrick…
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Facts Please
Bacterial meningitis also be called meningococcal meningitis is caused by Neisseria meningitidis. There are different groups of N. meningitidis, and group B or MenB is the most common.
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Irish Outbreak
Siobhan Holohan, the chief executive of ACT for Meningitis based in Galway, lost her four-year-old daughter, Aoibhe, to meningococcal meningitis in 2008. ACT was set up by Siobhan and…
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Full Coverage
New Jersey law currently requires that college students be vaccinated against meningitis ACW & Y which has been available for decades. In December, NJ…
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Meningitis Season
Bacterial meningitis is a serious illness. It could kill an infected person in a matter of days if not treated promptly. There is a rise in the…
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