Friday, 17 November 2017

PRO/EDR> Meningitis, meningococcal - USA (05): (MA) college, sg. B

Meningitis - Neisseria -- United States
A total of 2 University of Massachusetts Amherst students hospitalized to treat a potentially deadly meningococcal disease have a strain of the illness for which students are generally not vaccinated.
"We have received confirmation that the diagnosis for the 2nd student is serogroup B. This is a confirmation that UHS [University Health Service] had anticipated," University Health Services Executive Director George Corey said in an email to campus on [Wed 15 Nov 2017]. "UHS continues to work

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2zNcTqJ

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