All links on this page provide information on meningitis:
- A Letter from JFK Jr: The meningitis vaccine may sicken 12,000 and kill 36 in CO
The FDA recently approved two B strain meningococcal vaccines, Trumenba and Bexsero.Vaccine makers are pushing government officials to add them to the recommended schedule for the fall semester. Critics have faulted the government’s expedited safety and efficiency testing for the new B strain vaccines citing glaring lapses in safety protocols including the absence of inactive placebos.
Source: Levi Quackenboss - A homeopathic alternative to the meningitis vaccine
There is every reason to recommend the homeopathic alternative: a major study in Brazil shows that the nosode Meningococcinum 30 CH (K) gives excellent protection against ALL the forms of meningitis.
Source: Dr. Tinus Smits - NY students forced to take the Meningitis vaccine
It is getting more and more difficult for parents to make health decisions for their own children, particularly in the state of New York. Because now, parents can add the meningitis vaccine as one of the required New York state vaccines for school children. Starting next year, students who begin the 7th grade will be forced to take the vaccine, or sent home.
Source: Vaxxter - Teen death from meningitis (vaccinated) shocks family
Dhume’s quick death was a shock to the family, especially because the healthy teenager had previously been vaccinated for bacterial meningitis, his sister, Nichole Lester, said yesterday. The family knew the odds were long against getting the infection after being inoculated, she said.
Source: NJ Advance Media - Togo Meningitis deaths rise to 70; More than 860 cases reported
The death toll from a meningitis outbreak in Togo rose to 70 as the government attempted to halt the disease by vaccinating more than 233,000 people, a health official said.
Source: Bloomberg - This study confirms a link between measles-mumps-rubella vaccination and aseptic meningitis
A mass immunization campaign with a Urabe-containing measles-mumps-rubella vaccine was carried out in 1997 in the city of Salvador, northeastern Brazil, with a target population of children aged 1-11 years.
Source: Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
