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But he added that the vaccine is a valuable preventative step with little risk.
The legislation would not attempt to make the meningococcal vaccine mandatory before college entrance. Instead, it would try to ensure that parents receive information about the disease and sign a waiver confirming they’ve received the information before sending their children to college.
Incoming first-years receive informational packets in the mail which strongly recommend the vaccine. Harvard also offers the vaccinations.
The vaccine cannot protect against all strains of the disease. About one-third of all cases cannot be prevented.
“The vaccine we typically use protects against four strains...the problem is, the major strain in the U.S. is strain B,” said Mark S. Pasternack, an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and chief of the pediatric infectious disease unit at the...