Summary

MENINGITIS OUTBREAKS AT COLLEGE CAMPUSES HAVE HEALTH OFFICIALS CONCERNED. THERE IS A MENINGITIS VACCINE BUT IT IS EXPENSIVE, SO THE QUESTION IS “IS VACCINATING EVERY INCOMING FRESHMAN WORTH THE PRICE?”

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 171286
Story Slug Meningitis Outbreak (1999)
Location Washington, DC
Format PKG W/TAG
Date 10/11/1999
Archive Time 49:04
TRT 1:29
Video Description (FOR AN ADDITIONAL FEE, THE REPORTER IS LICENSABLE) VARIOUS SHOT OF HOSPITAL; NURSE GIVING SHOT TO MALE PATIENT; WOMAN SIGNING SOMETHING AT FRONT DESK OF HOSPITAL; NURSE SOT; COLLEGE STUDENTS IN DORMITORIES; MALE SOT (DR.) NURSE PREPARING SHOT; NURSE GIVING SHOT; MALE SOT; STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE SHOT; GIVING SHOT; STUDENT STUDYING; NURSE ENTERING STUDENT HEALTH.
Description MENINGITIS OUTBREAKS AT COLLEGE CAMPUSES HAVE HEALTH OFFICIALS CONCERNED. THERE IS A MENINGITIS VACCINE BUT IT IS EXPENSIVE, SO THE QUESTION IS “IS VACCINATING EVERY INCOMING FRESHMAN WORTH THE PRICE?”
Script LEAD: FROM EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN TO COLLEGE PARK MARYLAND, MENINGITIS OUTBREAKS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES HAVE HEALTH OFFICIALS CONCERNED. THE VIRUS, WHICH CAN FATAL, AT FIRST ACTS LIKE THE FLU, AND CAN BE SPREAD IN COLLEGE DORMITORIES. AND AS PAT ROGERS REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON, STUDENTS ARE STARTING TO GET THE MESSAGE...AND GET IMMUNIZED. SCRIPT: AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, 1,500 STUDENTS ARE GIVEN ANTI-BIOTICS AFTER ONE STUDENT COMES DOWN WITH MENINGITIS. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, STUDENTS LINE UP FOR A VACCINE SHOT AFTER A STUDENT THERE GETS THE VIRUS. AND AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, AT LEAST SIXTY STUDENTS HAVE RECEIVED THE VACCINE EVEN THOUGH NO ONE THERE HAS CONTRACTED MENINGITIS. :11] ..For the first time" 8:41:26 students are quite concerned mostly the parents are concerned, especially the parents of freshman students sending their kids to school for the first time.:37 COLLEGE FRESHMAN, WHO ALMOST ALWAYS LIVE IN DORMITORIES, ARE THREE TIME MORE LIKELY TO GET MENINGITIS THAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL. MENINGITIS HAS AN EASIER TIME SPREADING IN A DORMITORIES CLOSE QUARTERS. THE VIRUS AFFECTS THE SPINE AND BRAIN. :07] ..lapse into coma" 7:31:58 individuals will get fatigue, failure to eat severe headaches and can lapse into coma. THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS HAS NOT YET OFFICIALLY RECOMMENDED THAT STUDENTS GOING OFF TO COLLEGE AUTOMATICALLY GET A VACCINE SHOT, BUT... :11] ..To the college student" 7:32:24 physicians should educate parents and adolescents. Number two, they should make them aware of the vaccine and number three they should make an informed decision about whether that vaccine should be given to the college student.:35 PICKERING SAYS THE ISSUE NEEDS MORE STUDY, BUT AT GEORGE WASHINGTON, THEY'RE NOT WAITING. THAT SCHOOL WILL OFFER CAMPUS WIDE IMMUNIZATION IN NOVEMBER. BUT EXPERTS SAY THE VACCINE IS NO GUARANTEE...IT BLOCKS ONLY ABOUT SEVENTY OF MENINGITIS CASES AND IS GOOD FOR ONLY THREE TO FIVE YEARS. IN WASHIGTON PAT ROGERS REPORTING. IN WASHINGTON PAT ROGERS KCAL NINE NEWS. MIDSOUTH FEED-DATE: 99OCT11 MIDSOUTH
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