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.
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.
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.