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  • Peering Inside the Skull of a Mouse to Solve Meningitis Mystery | Office of Communications: NYU Langone Medical Center scientists and their collaborators at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., have discovered an unexpected cause for the fatal seizures seen in mice with viral meningitis, an infection of the central nervous system, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The finding may lead to a new way of thinking about how the human immune system responds to viral diseases.

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  • Mecca pilgrims die from rare meningitis - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent: "A rare strain of meningitis has claimed the lives of four Britons and struck 20 others after they visited the holy Muslim cities of Mecca and Medina. A rare strain of meningitis has claimed the lives of four Britons and struck 20 others after they visited the holy Muslim cities of Mecca and Medina. The unprecedented spate of fatalities among British pilgrims travelling to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia has led to calls for the Department of Health to review its advice on vaccination. The victims have all been hit by the uncommon W135 variant of meningococcal meningitis, which accounts for about 2 per cent of the 2,500 cases of the disease each year. Another two British pilgrims were struck by a different strain."

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  • Texas Senate wants meningitis vaccination for freshmen: The Texas Senate has voted to require college freshman who plan to live in campus housing to be vaccinated against bacterial meningitis. The disease is caused by bacteria infecting spinal fluid and can result in brain damage, hearing loss, learning disability, and death.
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