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Case reports,
personal testimonies, newspaper and journal articles
about people who have suffered or died from vaccine-preventable diseases |
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College
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"The laughter of our hearts: Losing
a teen to a vaccine-preventable disease" |
Report #46: Joseph Kepferle's
father describes the pain of having a healthy college-aged son become ill and
die within 24 hours of meningococcal meningitis.
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5/30/02 |
HTML
PDF |
College
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"Ordinary college student shares
horror of meningitis" |
Report #33: Ryan Hockensmith, a
senior at Penn State majoring in journalism, writes about his three-week battle
with meningococcal meningitis.
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9/21/00 |
HTML
PDF |
| 19 yrs. |
"Meningitis: Big dread on campus" |
Report #25: Cadet John Fuller at
the Virginia Military Institute describes how, within two days, he went from
feeling fine to being in the intensive care unit, fighting meningococcemia.
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3/9/00 |
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