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Focuses on the recovery of Southhampton University after three first-year students died from meningitis there. What was the university's response to the meningitis cases; Indication that regular meetings were held between the university staff and Southhampton Communicable Disease Control.

Opinion. Comments on the outbreak of meningitis at the Southampton University in Southampton, England in November, 1997. Details on the amount of students who died from the disease; Information on the media response; How the university contained the spread of the disease; Development of a meningitis website on the Internet computer network.