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This page lists all feature stories (articles of interest to health consumers searching the internet), podcasts, electronic cards, videos, and posters related to meningococcal.
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Web Feature
Meningococcal Disease – Help Prevent It
Meningococcal disease, a type of bacterial meningococcal, is a serious infection that can be prevented with a vaccine...
(Published: April 18, 2011 on the CDC's home page)
Podcasts
Invasive Meningococcal Men Y Disease
Listen To This Podcast (7:21 minutes)
Dr. Leonard Mayer, a public health microbiologist at CDC, discusses invasive meningococcal disease.
Date Released: 4/23/2012
Meningococcal Immunization for Adolescents
Listen To This Podcast (5:04 minutes)
This podcast provides information about adolescent recommendations for meningococcal disease/meningococcal
Date Released: 8/7/2008
Pre-Teen Immunizations PSA
Listen To This Podcast (0:29 minutes)
This podcast is a public service announcement (PSA) about immunizations needed by pre-teens.
Date Released: 10/22/2009
Videos
CDC Commentary: Clarifying Meningococcal Booster Dose Recommendations
Release Date: 1/16/2012
CDC Expert Commentary in Partnership with Medscape (available to registered users of Medscape's Professional sites; registration is free [http://www.medscape.com]).
View this video (4:40 min)
CDC Commentary: Meningococcal Disease: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management
Release Date: 3/22/2010
CDC Expert Commentary in Partnership with Medscape (available to registered users of Medscape's Professional sites; registration is free [www.medscape.com])
View this video (5:25 min)
Have You Heard About How To Prevent Meningococcal Disease?
Release Date: 8/11/2009
This video, featuring a meningococcal expert who is also a concerned mom, helps you learn more about meningococcal disease and how to prevent it.
Fight of her life (5:25 min)
Release Date: 3/22/2010
Watch a video from MSNBC about a college student who contracted bacterial meningococcal and survived.
CDC Responds to Meningitis in Burkina Faso
Release Date: 5/2/2011
Epidemics of bacterial meningitis in Africa can affect hundreds of thousands of people and kill many thousands. A CDC doctor describes how CDC has contributed to development of an inexpensive vaccine and is now working with partners to ensure it is used where needed most and evaluated for effectiveness.
View this video (3:13 min)
Print Materials
Immunization Action Coalition (IAC)
- Meningococcal: Questions and Answers (104 KB, 3 pages)
Preteen Vaccine Campaign
National meningococcal Association's Pre-Teen Vaccine Campaign
For Kids (from BAM! Body and Mind)
BAM! Body and Mind is an online destination for kids 9-13 years old. BAM! Body and Mind gives them the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices. The site focuses on topics that kids told us are important to them using kid-friendly lingo, games, quizzes, and other interactive features.
Visit The Immune Platoon on the BAM! Website to learn more about pertussis and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
Meet Meningitis Mutants (378 KB, 2 pages), a disease villain that can be viral or bacterial and attacks the spinal cord and brain.
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