Dr. Whitney graduated from the Rosalind Franklin University/ Chicago Medical School in 1995. She works in Tumwater, WA and specializes in Family Medicine. Dr. Whitney is affiliated with Capital Medical Center and Providence St Peter Hospital.
The new study suggests that giving these vaccines to kids has also limited meningitis outbreaks among adults, who are now less likely to catch the microbes from youngsters, says study coauthor Cynthia Whitney of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Screening pregnant women for
Cynthia Whitney, CDC chief of bacterial and respiratory diseases, told WebMD that the good news is that this very serious infection is now a lot less common than it was. But, she adds, this disease does still occur. There are about 4,000 cases of bacterial meningitis each year in the U.S.,
Date: May 26, 2011
Category: Health
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CDC Report Shows Bacterial Meningitis Cases on the Decline
"The good news is that fewer people are getting bacterial meningitis. The bad news is that if you get it, it's still a very serious infection," said study co-author Dr. Cynthia Whitney, chief of the bacterial respiratory diseases branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlan