Letter to the editor from mother of Henry Mackaman, a 21-year-old UW-Madison student who died two years ago of meningitis strain B. “At the time, there was no available vaccine in the United State for this particular strain. Recently, the Food and Drug Administration approved two vaccines to help protect against Type B meningitis. However, not many parents and students know about them. Colleges are treating the new Type B vaccines in different ways. Some, like UW-Madison, make the vaccines available to those who ask. I commend UW-Madison for doing this, and I encourage other colleges in Wisconsin and elsewhere to follow that lead.”
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