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UHS, however, has stopped far short of recommending that students opt for the vaccine.
Although the meningitis vaccine is completely safe, it only immunizes recipients from four of the five strains of the disease. It offers no protection from the other strain, which causes about 30 percent of the cases on college campuses.
And Lardner said the vaccine is not 100 percent effective against the other four strains. So even if students receive the vaccine, they should not ignore the disease, she said.
Last fall, UHS distributed a brochure on meningitis to all dorms and Houses. The brochure includes information on the effectiveness of the vaccine and on what students should consider when deciding whether to be vaccinated.
"We've probably given [the vaccine] twice as much as we've ever given it before," Rosenthal said.