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• Meningococcal infection is usually introduced into a household by an asymptomatic person.
• Life-threatening and fatal meningococcal infections have occurred in patients who received eculizumab.
• People with this condition are prone to meningococcal infection.
• At Michigan State University on Oct . 9, a student entered a hospital with meningococcal infection.
• Each year in the United States, there are about 3, 000 cases of meningococcal infection, including 300 deaths.
• Rosenstein of the CDC says the question parents most often ask her is whether the vaccine can cause meningococcal infections.
• In the third breakout, health officials said two further cases of meningococcal infection had been identified in Western Australia since Young's death.
• And recent studies have found that freshmen living in dormitories have six times as much risk of developing meningococcal infections as students overall.
• Rosenstein says the centers are considering new studies of the incidence of meningococcal infections among summer campers, preparatory school students, prisoners and other groups.
• The meningococcal infection had ravaged his body and forced doctors to amputate all of his limbs in a last-ditch but unsuccessful attempt to save his life.
• Of those who develop meningococcal infections, 13 percent die, according to the centers _ a rate rivaled by few other types of infections in the United States.
• The centers recently conducted an extensive survey, said Dr . Nancy Rosenstein, an expert there in the epidemiology of meningococcal infections, but could not come up with an answer.
• Similarly, meningococcal infection was a serious problem for the military until 1970, when the rate was 25 per 100, 000, with most cases occurring in the recruits'initial training camps.
• Freshmen live in close quarters, and Rosenstein noted that in homes where someone has a meningococcal infection, the risk of someone else's being stricken is 500 times that of the general population.
• Health officials are trying to locate up to 300 people who attended the funeral after a 76-year-old woman at the service was admitted to Launceston General Hospital on May 28 with meningococcal infection.
• In another study in Wednesday's journal, researchers found the incidence of meningococcal infection in Maryland increased substantially among 15-through 24-year-olds in the 1990s and that almost one-fourth of cases in that age group were fatal.
• The study further examined mortality rates for eight common diseases for which antibiotics offered effective therapy ( syphilis, tuberculosis, dysentery, scarlet fever, whooping cough, meningococcal infections, and pneumonia ), and found a 56 % decline over the same period.
• When Heist, whose blood had no bactericidal activity, acquired an " N . meningitidis " infection, the link between serum bactericidal activity and resistance to meningococcal infection was proven " ( Pollard et al . 2004, p . 1812 ).
• For the latest study, researchers at the U . S . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified 96 U . S . college students ages 18 to 23 who were diagnosed with meningococcal infection from Sept . 1, 1998, to Aug . 31, 1999.