Meningitis – Neisseria — United States
UMass Amherst [University of Massachusetts at Amherst] is preparing to vaccinate all 20 000 undergraduate students following an outbreak of meningitis. This is something that UMass trains for each year, but hasn’t had to do in a real-world situation since the 2009 outbreak of Swine Flu.
Meningitis is a potentially deadly bacterial infection. There are 2 confirmed cases at UMass and more may be carrying the bacteria. “This bacteria exists as a carrier state mostly and it occasionally causes
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