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Case reports, personal testimonies, newspaper and journal articles about people who have suffered or died from vaccine-preventable diseases
Age Title Summary Published Format*
18 years "In Memory of Ryan Milley" Report #101: Frankie Milley, founder of Meningitis Angels, shares the devastating account of the death of her only child, Ryan Wayne Milley.
 
4/10/09 HTML
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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.
 
5/30/02 HTML
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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.
 
9/21/00 HTML
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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.
 
3/9/00 HTML
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