Why College Campuses Get Hit By Meningitis Outbreaks

For the past nine months, Princeton University in New Jersey has been trying to halt an outbreak of bacterial meningitis in its students without success. The situation in Princeton, where six students and a visiting student have fallen ill, got us thinking - why do meningitis outbreaks seem to happen most often on college campuses? We asked Dr. Thomas Clark, a meningitis expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to tell us why that happens. Why do meningitis outbreaks seem to happen so often on college campuses? When you hear about meningitis outbreaks, really what you're talking about is a type of bacteria called Neisseria meningitidis or meningococcus - they're the same thing.
Source: NPR
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/19/246178160/why-college-campuses-get-hit-by-meningitis-outbreaks?ft=1&f=1013


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