She could have died from meningitis. Now this student wants more people to get vaccinated
When varsity athlete Megan Plamendon got a headache last November, she thought she'd pushed herself too hard on a 17 kilometre run. But the student at Queen's University had meningitis — one of three cases that prompted Kingston health officials to warn of an increase in invasive meningococcal disease type B activity in the region.
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