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Friends of Personal Medicine, I came across this site called Voices of Meningitis. It shows some pretty powerful videos of how kids like you can be affected by meningococcal disease. I didn’t realize that this potentially deadly bacterial infection can take the life of an otherwise healthy teen in just 1 day.1-5 It’s time we got you vaccinated! Check out the site when you have a few minutes.
www.voicesofmeningitis.org Love,
Dr Hodge
| | | | | |  | | | | | | | References: | | | 1. | National Meningitis Association. About meningitis. http://www.nmaus.org/about_meningitis/index.htm. Accessed July 17, 2009. | | 2. | Granoff DM, Harrison LH, Borrow R. Meningococcal vaccines. In: Plotkin SA, Orenstein WA, eds.Vaccines. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders Co.; 2008. | | 3. | World Health Organization (WHO). Meningococcal meningitis. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs141/en/. Accessed July 20, 2009. | | 4. | Erickson LJ, De Wals P, McMahon J, Heim S. Complications of meningococcal disease in college students. Clin Infect Dis. 2001;33:737-739. | | 5. | Warren HS Jr., Gonzalez RG, Tian Di. Case 38-2003: a 12-year-old girl with fever and coma: case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. N Engl J Med. 2003;249:2341-2349. | | | | | MKT17648-13 | | | |
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