June 10, 2005
New Meningitis Drug Spurs Policy Change
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took a more proactive stance to prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis by issuing a recommendation in May that all children over the age of 11 be immunized against the potentially fatal disease with a newly licensed vaccine.
Many colleges already suggest that students receive either vaccinations or information about meningitis, but the new federal recommendation makes it much more likely that a student's health-insurance plan will
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