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Warning for Parents After Teen Sickened With Meningitis

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May 10, 2017 4:39 pm

Warning for Parents After Teen Sickened With Meningitis

After a Long Island student was sickened with meningitis B, a parent who lost her daughter to the same strain years ago is urging families to ask for a vaccine that isn’t covered by New York’s mandatory vaccination for 7th, 8th and 12th-graders. Greg Cergol reports.

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