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Deadly Case of Meningitis

It’s almost time to head back to school — and back to the doctor’s office. Doctors recommend adolescents and college freshmen get vaccinated against meningitis. But one family has learned how suddenly this deadly disease can strike.

“He loved to read,” Ruthann Baxter-Cutting says of her son.

22-year-old Erik Baxter was an aspiring writer himself.