which type of meningitis is deadly
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a vaccine for the first time for the deadly type of meningitis that affected the students. The vaccine, Trumenba, protects against serogroup B, one of five forms of bacterial meningitis. It is manufactured by Pfizer.
Some forms of meningitis (such as those associated with meningococci, Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococci or mumps virus infections) may be prevented by immunization. In 2013 meningitis resulted in 303,000 deaths â down from 464,000 deaths in 1990.