week or whatever, you would get coverage the month after that. so there s emphasis on it, and i think she hasn t been doing a lot lately and i don t know if it will signal more involvement, and each assignment that she s requested to do can, request one by one so i wouldn t read into this as new activism on policy for the obama administration and her worries may have a significant impact of the quarters of the uninsured universe. she may be the perfect person to counter a very successful republican letters that they get from constituents or emails and the prize got personal and taking about a meningitis scare. hay had to rush her to the hospital and had to do a spinal
type b meningitis approved here in the u.s. but thousands of students at princeton, they could get an emergency vaccine used in europe now and australia. jessica snyder of wcbs has details for us. reporter: health concerns on the princeton university campus are growing. another student was diagnosed with meningitis this week. the seventh since march. i think a lost people are concerned for the fact that it didn t go away over the summer after everybody left. reporter: and not food and drug administration is coming forward with a way for the school to combat this serious health scare. it s offering using of a vax teen cavaccine called baxsero. students arelieved the ivy league university is being proactive and considering using
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if i were a parent i d be interested in getting the information and generally accepting. i were around that table with the board of trustees, i d been gently encouraging them to do this. i guess the alternative is you can die from meningitis, so i suppose some people will choose to take it. dr. william shaffner, thank you for clearing up the questions. and actually another one, oregon. and why we don t understand. a lot of those students will be heading home for thanksgiving break because thanksgiving is just days away. i mean, it may be 14 days, but days away. and it already feels like the dead of winter in some parts of the country. it sure does, this is what it looked like outside of portland friday. let s go to washington. a winter wonderland. you re calling it a wonderland. they re probably calling it something else. is snow, slush here in
want to stop meningitis b strain from spreading across the campus. leaders are getting together and making a decision to offer a vaccine to students that so far has been only approved overseas. princeton university officials are gathering this weekend to decide if they need to offer vaccines. the new jersey department of health case the first case developed when the first student returned from spring break in march. an outbreak of the disease was declared in may. a total of six students and one visitor to princeton are linked to the outbreak. the latest case was diagnosed last week. that student is still hospitalized this morning. i remember it was instant. she went from feeling almost fine to the next minute with 103 fever. reporter: bacterial meningitis is rare and the