Word: risks
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...Lardner, public health nurse at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where a student survived a case of meningitis last fall, said first-year students' unfamiliarity with crowded dormitory living and their tendency to partake in "high risk behavior," such a drinking and smoking, makes them most likely to contract the disease...
...time people are seniors, their risk behavior has gone down some," Lardner said...
...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...
...think if you look at the cost of an education at Harvard or Dartmouth, $40 is not an unreasonable cost for the student or family to reduce [the risk]," Turco said...
Turco said he did not agree with the criticism over the cost-effectiveness of the vaccine, noting that the very fact that the vaccine reduces the risk of meningitis justifies students getting...