The CDC's independent vaccine advisors recommended a new vaccine that could potentially prevent meningitis B.
Patti Wukovits still thinks about how she had to bury her daughter in her prom dress.In June 2012, 17-year-old Kimberly Coffey had a fever and body aches. She told her mom it felt like her ankles were bleeding. When Wukovits looked, she noticed a purple rash.Wukovits, a nurse from Long Island, rushed Kimberly to the emergency room where doctors diagnosed her with meningitis. Her kidneys and heart were failing. They could do little to help her.Kimberly died days before her high school graduation.
The MedB vaccine is made by two companies, Bexsero and Trumenba.Not everyone gets both kinds of meningococcal vaccine. If a doctor determines that a patient should need both versions, the patient would currently get four or five shots. Two of the MenACWY–one when they turn 11 or 12–and a booster when they turn 16. The preferred age to get the MenB shot is between ages 16 and 18 years, which is also a two or three-dose series.
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