Seek Meningitis Vaccine
Excerpt from the November 9, 1963, issue of SCIENCE NEWS LETTER
Vaccine that will prevent meningitis is being sought.
When found, it would solve the problem of meningitis outbreaks among military recruits…. After 24 years of successful prevention against meningococcal disease … specific strains of Neisseria meningitidis have become resistant to the sulfonamides usually used for treatment or prevention….