This important post is being published to highlight Preteens & Teens Week during National Immunization Awareness Month. Please take the time to talk to your child’s healthcare provider to
Emily was a college student when she called home complaining of a headache - 36 hours later she passed away due to serogroup B meningococcal disease, but her organ donations saved the lives of five pe
While anyone can contract meningococcal disease, adolescents and young adults are among the population who have a higher risk for the disease due to their lifestyle factors. Learn more about how it i
Every Child By Two’s (now Vaccinate Your Family’s) online pages have reached over 11 million people with evidence based vaccine messaging in 2016. As we look back at the record number of v
This is a guest post, written by Alicia Stillman, Director of the Emily Stillman Foundation. One of the missions of the Foundation is to raise awareness of meningococcal disease and the various v
This guest post has been written by meningitis survivor Samantha Bennett. I have been an artist most of my life. Like a piece of my art, my body tells a story. My story is drawn on my face, it’s bee
I’m here to tell you that meningitis is not only life changing, but it is deadly. In 2008 I was diagnosed with meningococcal septicemia. Within 14 hours from my first symptom, I was told that I had
By Andy Marso I occasionally look at pictures of myself on a spring break trip in 2004, about a month before I almost died of a meningococcal infection. I was a senior at the University of Kansas at t
I was saddened to hear about another college student who died at the hands of meningitis. According to a report on NBC News, a 19-year-old Drexel University student, Stephanie Lynn Ross, died on
Last month there was a great deal of concern regarding several meningitis outbreaks on college campuses. The first to really gain attention were the seven cases at Princeton University. Whil