Princeton plans to offer imported vaccine to stop meningitis outbreak

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Princeton plans to offer imported vaccine to stop meningitis outbreak

By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - Princeton University said on Monday it planned to offer students and faculty a meningitis vaccine approved for use in Europe and Australia but not yet in the United States, in an effort to stop an outbreak of meningitis on its Ivy League campus. The federal Food and Drug Administration agreed last week to the importation of the vaccine for use on the campus to inoculate students against a strain of the disease, serogroup B, that has sickened seven people this year. Officials at the New Jersey campus said on Monday they were awaiting final approval from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and would begin offering the vaccine, Bexsero, "as soon as possible." "The vaccine that is being recommended is licensed for use in Europe and Australia, but not the United States," the university said in a statement.

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