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Fortunately, there is a vaccine for the disease. Last October, in the wake of reports about several meningitis cases, the American College Health Association (ACHA) issued a statement urging college students to "consider" getting vaccinated...
Although the ACHA statement might seem like a clear message to get vaccinated, Lardner said the statement was far from a recommendation...
...ACHA cites two CDC studies indicating increased risk of meningitis among first-year students living in dormitories, but many people believe the new policy was caused primarily by media pressure. This fall, ABC ran a profile on college meningitis cases in its newsmagazine "20/20" that some health professionals said they credit with raising parental awareness of the disease...
...this attention and the ACHA and CDC policies have led to different reactions on various college campuses...
Officials at the American College Health Association (ACHA) have lobbied the Clinton task force to consider health services as a model. "The model of college health services deserves close scrutiny by health over reformers," David P. Kraft, the ACHA president, said in a statement...