Texas College Students Required To Get Meningitis Vaccine Before Return To Campus in 2012

Effective January 1st, all college students in Texas will be required to get vaccinated for meningitis. This is the result of new state law that seeks to fill a gap in public health protections left in earlier state statutes that only required this of students living in residential dorms. As the recent coverage from KHOU outlines below, the one time cost may seem a bit steep on the front end, but if you catch the disease it can be truly devastating.