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Welcome to Wellness on Mass. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and this is your weekly rundown.

Now, let's catch up on what's happening this week because there are two stories that, while they

seem totally unrelated, they actually say a lot about how we're approaching medicine right now.

Let's start with the UK.

I mentioned it last week.

I talked about that there was a slight uptick in meningitis B cases, specifically in an area of Kent,

mostly affecting university students.

And it definitely raised some concern.

Here's a good news.

Cases are now starting to come down.

We've gone from mid-30

cases to about 20 confirmed after further testing. So they actually thought they had more cases

than they really did. That's good news. Now, that might not sound too dramatic that they said

that there were 30 cases and there were 20 cases, but an infectious

disease, that shift absolutely matters. And it means that response is also working, too, because

of the confirmed cases, they aren't seeing new cases or more cases because public health officials,

they moved quickly, getting the antibiotics, making sure they were diagnosing it, getting close

contacts. Yeah, I remember contact tracing with COVID. Even more important. Well, that wasn't even

that important at all with COVID, but definitely important when it comes to meningitis. They also

increased their vaccination campaigns. We were talking about the meningitis vaccine here in the United States at the

CDC ACIP meeting last year. It caused a bit of an uproar because instead of mandating it or

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