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Courtesy of Andy Marso Topeka Capital-Journal reporter Andy Marso with fellow meningitis survivor Maggi Pivovar, at a fundraiser walk earlier this year. Marso just released a book about his fight against the deadly infection. Andy Marso’s new book about surviving meningitis, ‘Worth the Pain.’ Andy Marso was a typical college senior until one morning when he couldn’t get out of ...

Coolcaesar via Wikipedia Four students have been sickened with meningitis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the past month, county health officials said. An outbreak of disease linked to bacteria that cause meningitis has sickened four students at a major California university, prompting discussions with federal regulators about hastening approval of a new vaccine. The students, at the ...

© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters/REUTERS People walk around the Princeton University campus in New Jersey. A meningitis vaccine approved for use in Europe and Australia but not in the United States can be imported to try to stop an outbreak of the disease at Princeton University in New Jersey, federal health officials said. PRINCETON, N.J.— Princeton University officials decided Monday ...