Meningitis B is rare but deadly. Parents who lost children to the disease wonder why no one mentioned a vaccine.

Meningitis B is rare but deadly. Parents who lost children to the disease wonder why no one mentioned a vaccine.

September 16, 2019
The Washington Post

SUMMARY

The first clue Aracelly Bibl had that something was wrong with her 18-year-old son in February was when his girlfriend called at 8:23 p.m. and said he had a mysterious red rash all over his chest, a fever and flulike muscle aches. “Take him to the ER,” Bibl told her.

The next call came from the ­emergency-room nurse at 10 p.m. asking Bibl to come to the hospital immediately. Doctors suspected her son, Joseph Clouse, had meningitis B, a deadly bacterial infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, and had started treating him with IV antibiotics.

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