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Mom worried about meningitis sends son to London to get shot
JoNel Aleccia NBC News
19 hours ago
One mother of a University of California, Santa Barbara, student is so worried about the lack of a vaccine to stop an outbreak of bacterial meningitis, she?s sending her son to London to get the shot.
Dr. Cristina Lete, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Newton, Mass., says she?s willing to spend more than $4,000 on a last-minute trip to make sure that Jacob, 18, is protected against the B strain of meningitis not covered by the vaccines normally recommended for U.S. college students...
Mom worried about meningitis sends son to London to get shot
JoNel Aleccia NBC News
19 hours ago
One mother of a University of California, Santa Barbara, student is so worried about the lack of a vaccine to stop an outbreak of bacterial meningitis, she?s sending her son to London to get the shot.
Dr. Cristina Lete, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Newton, Mass., says she?s willing to spend more than $4,000 on a last-minute trip to make sure that Jacob, 18, is protected against the B strain of meningitis not covered by the vaccines normally recommended for U.S. college students...