Articles Archive for February 2006
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The National Meningitis Association (NMA), a non-profit organization committed to raising awareness about meningococcal meningitis and prevention methods, including immunization. NMA was founded by parents whose adolescent and young adult children either died or suffer permanent disabilities after contracting meningococcal meningitis, a devastating bacterial infection that can result in death or disability within hours of the first symptoms. Immunization can protect against many cases of the disease, which is a fact many NMA board members didn’t know until it was too late.
Today, these parents are working to raise …

