meningitis

An outbreak was declared by the state Department of Health after two cases were reported at the New Brunswick campus Feb. 4 and Feb. 23, according to a statement from the school.

An Assembly panel Monday endorsed the idea of requiring college students to get a vaccine for meningitis B, if they’re living on campus.

Rutgers University and a state health agency are urging all incoming and returning undergraduate students to take additional meningitis vaccinations after two students contracted the disease earlier this year.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Officials are urging parents to take precautions after a first-grader in Newark died of suspected bacterial meningitis.

A federal panel on Thursday recommended that two new meningitis vaccines only be used for rare outbreaks, resisting tearful pleas to give it routinely to teens and college students.

A Philadelphia college student died of the same type of meningitis that caused an outbreak at Princeton University, suggesting the strain might still exist on the Ivy League campus despite a massive vaccination effort, federal health officials said Tuesday.

Princeton University officials say more than 90 percent of the eligible students and staff received a meningitis vaccine this week as part of the university's effort to halt an outbreak.

Princeton University has begun vaccinating nearly 6,000 students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis in an unusual federal government-endorsed administration of a drug not generally approved for use in the United States.

A case of meningitis has been reported at Monmouth University.

Officials at Princeton University in New Jersey are considering measures to stop the spread of meningitis on the Ivy League campus.