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LANSING — A 19-year old Michigan State University student died last week from the illness that causes meningitis, the Ingham County Medical Examiner confirmed Friday.

Carly Glynn, of Wyoming, Mich., died Feb. 9 at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.

Initial testing proved negative for meningococcal disease, an illness that causes bacterial meningitis. But Ingham County Medical Examiner Joyce DeJong determined otherwise because Glynn tested positive for neisseria meningitidis, the organism that causes meningococcal disease.

Meningococcal disease is a rare but serious illness that ...

West Milford – According to Dr. Paul Offit of the Vaccine Education Center and the Division of Infectious Disease at the Childrenís Hospital of Philadelphia, there are new recommendations for Menactra, a meningitis vaccine.

The current recommendation remains in place, that adolescents between 11 and 13 receive the vaccine. What has changed is that a booster be added between 16 and 18 years of age, roughly five years later, to make sure kids are protected through adolescence and through the early ...

In 1998, a British surgeon named Andrew Wakefield published a paper claiming that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine might cause autism. To support his case, Dr. Wakefield reported the stories of eight children who had developed symptoms of autism within one month of receiving MMR. He proposed that measles vaccine virus travels to the intestine, causes intestinal damage, and allows for brain-damaging proteins to enter children’s blood streams.

The problem with Dr. Wakefield’s studyópublished in the Lancet, a leading medical journalówas that ...