Wider Use Urged for New Meningitis Vaccine (adolescents,college freshmen)

[DeepModem Mom]

Wider Student Use Is Urged for New Meningitis Vaccine
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Published: May 27, 2005


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended yesterday wider use of a new meningitis vaccine for adolescents and college freshmen.

The vaccine, sold as Menactra by Sanofi Pasteur, protects against infections caused by meningococcal bacteria. Such infections include a form of meningitis that can be rapidly fatal.

For the first time, the diseases center, a federal agency in Atlanta, recommended that all 11- and 12-year-olds be routinely immunized against meningococcal disease.

The agency also recommended using Menactra to protect high school freshmen or children younger than 15, whichever comes earlier.

In a third recommendation, the agency recommended that all college freshmen living in dormitories be immunized against meningococcal disease....The American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed the recommendations....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/health/27vaccine.html

[rwheeler31]

1. What?

If kids get to friendly they get sick? This is so preschool.

[Kagemusha]

2. Rather the incidence of sickness is higher.

And when it strikes, bad things happen.

[shanti]

3. a student

in my son's school district (not same school) got this last week. a notice went out at the school. apparently, the student had contact with students AT our school.....

is this vaccine available NOW?

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Kicking for an answer to your question, if anyone is knowledgeable --

from the article, it seems the vaccine is available.

[annabanana]

6. My son got one Monday..

NYS recommends it for kids heading to dorms, but it's not mandatory. (THAT means that insurance won't pay for it.........at my HMO it cost $90.)

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Thanks, anna! nt

[shanti]

9. yes thanks!

i'm calling kaiser now.

[shanti]

4. you're right

death can happen within a matter of hours. meningitis is nothing to play with.

[Bosso 63]

8. my son spent ten days in ICU

He made it, but it was damned scary.

[OKthatsIT]

10. Who is issuing the Menactra vaccination?

Let's get some stock now!!!

Do you realize our children have 96 antigens from vaccinations by the time theyre 5 yrs old?

You trust these companies? Have you heard of the autism rate in babies and autoimmune diseases people are getting? Professional watchdogs are saying we are being sold BS on vaccinations. Some of these vaccinations are useless harm, because the diseases pose little threat. But the vaccinations are harmful to some. Making them mandatory is killing some us out here.