Meningococcal Disease-New England, 1993-1998

Article Abstract:

The Rhode Island Department of Health may have overreacted when it recommended vaccinating all residents between the ages of 2 and 22 against Neisseria meningitidis. This bacterium can cause bacterial meningitis and other infections in children and young adults. It can occur as an outbreak or as individual cases that are not related to each other. When a cluster of cases occurred in Rhode Island in 1998, the state health department recommended vaccinations for all residents. However, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices only recommends vaccination to control outbreaks but less than 1% of the Rhode Island cases fell into this category.

Rhode Island, Usage, Meningococcal infections, Bacterial vaccines

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Outbreak of aseptic meningitis - Whiteside County, Illinois, 1995

Article Abstract:

An outbreak of meningitis caused by an enterovirus occurred in Whiteside County, Illinois in 1995. Seventy-nine people contracted the virus, almost half during June and August. The incidence was highest in the two largest towns in the county, Sterling and Rock Falls. Symptoms included headache, stiff neck, fever, muscle aches, nausea and vomiting and photophobia. Lumbar punctures were performed on 84% and in 9 cases, an enterovirus called echovirus 9 was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid. No environmental source was linked to the outbreak.

Illinois, ECHO viruses, Echovirus

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Serogroup Y meningococcal disease - Illinois, Connecticut, and selected areas, United States, 1989-1996

Article Abstract:

Surveillance data indicate that infections with Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y are increasing. In Illinois, the percentage of infections caused by this bacterial strain increased from 6% in 1991 to 29% in 1995 in those cases where the strain was identified. In Chicago, 71% of typed cultures from meningococcal disease were serogroup Y by 1995. In Connecticut, the percentage of serogroup Y infections among typed samples increased to 35% by 1995. Similar increases were seen in the San Francisco Bay Area, Atlanta, Tennessee and Maryland.

Neisseria meningitidis

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