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...disease is spread through very close personal contact and, though first-year college students are at a “moderately increased risk” of contracting meningitis, average college students contract it at a lower rate than 18 to 24-year-olds as a whole, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
This form of bacterial meningitis is fatal in 10 percent of cases, with another 10 percent chance of brain damage, according to the Mayo Clinic website. Although only around 100 college students contract meningitis each year, each case has the potential to become a campus-wide epidemic, according to the website...
According to Christopher Coley, chief of medicine for UHS, about three to five out of 10,000,000 college students have contract meningococcal meningitis from somebody else...
Bacterial meningitis is extremely rare, affecting 40 people per year in Massachusetts, Rosenthal said. According to the American College Health Association, of the 100 or so college students who contract meningococcal meningitis, five to 15 deaths are reported annually...
...have been planning what they want from their lives since they were young kids. They're single-minded in their pursuit of being the best players in their game." Tom Hicks, the Texas Rangers owner, says maturity was a major reason he signed A-Rod to a 10-year contract, though the player isn't a total robot. "Every so often he does something appropriate for a 28-year-old guy, and you say, 'Oh, yeah, he's a young guy,'" Hicks says. "Nothing I'd want to go on the record about...