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<p>3rd</a> Penn Student Hospitalized With Meningitis - cbs3.com</p>

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<p>third one now? wow.. :(</p>

<p>this was on ABC news last night; it was advertised during a grey's anatomy's commercial break.</p>

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<p>ew. Is it like running around campus?? That's a really dangerous disease.. I'm not feeling too enthusiastic about my acceptance now.. EW meningitis can cause death!!</p>

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<p>take that back, still loving Penn BUT EW.</p>

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<p>Honestly, that's gotta be awkward.</p>

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<p>it is going to be eradicated by the time the new freshmen arrive in fall yeah? :S</p>

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<p>i'm not a doctor but im throwing this out there- if we recieved a meningitis vaccination won't we be okay? i'm not particularly worried about this as much as the increasing rapes occuring on the Penn/Drexel campus.</p>

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<p>The vaccine, like the flu shot for example, only covers 80-90% of the strains out there, as they're constantly changing and evolving. The bacteria is actually much more common than you'd think, and it's just that it's usually the vaccinated strain. In this case, it's a strain that's outside the vaccine range.</p>

<p>Antibiotics work very well against it, but it can often be too late by the time it's noticed. Contraction of the disease also requires fairly extensive close contact - these two frat brothers probably shared a drink or food, and the other person may be a frat brother or some girl one of them kissed. </p>

<p>It'll definitely be gone by the fall, but there's a good chance the incoming class may bring with it a new strain or some other disease...</p>

<p>There isn't really an increase in rapes around the campuses - the only occurrence I know of is a single isolated two-victim crime that happened over the holidays.</p>

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It'll definitely be gone by the fall, but there's a good chance the incoming class may bring with it a new strain or some other disease...

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Um.. how often do new freshmen bring in a deadly disease? If I remember from my freshman year of high school, we didn't have a malaria epidemic!</p>

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<p>xSteven,</p>

<p>Welcome to college.</p>

<p>Matt</p>

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<p>so mattwonder, what disease did your class bring in as freshman? hahaaha
i wonder what we're gonna bring.</p>

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<p>I should be clear - it's not just freshmen (see the Anne Ryan case) but ask anyone at Student Health what life is like in the week following each break...</p>

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<p>Frat guys are the Connectors of this 'epidemic'. Let's hope it doesn't reach the Tipping Point!</p>

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<p>Heh, heh.</p>

<p>Nice reference.</p>

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<p>Penn could be contaminated with full-blown-AIDS and I still wouldnt hesitate to enroll! I LOVE PENN, GO QUAKERS! lol :P......it's still a little gross tho, not going to lie.</p>

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<p>how's it gross? i'd say sad if anything...</p>

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<p>They just blitzed out to the whole Dartmouth campus about this.</p>

<p>Our Winter Carnival was this weekend, and there's a lot of visiting students on campus. They were warning us in case we came into close contact with Penn students. Especially if we were athletes who played a Penn team recently...lol.</p>

<p>(It's not a laughing matter, but it was funny to see a blitz in my e-mail account this morning warning us of the danger of coming into contact with Penn students, as if we didn't already know...)</p>