Meningitis: Other Places To Get Help
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Other Places To Get Help
Online Resource
| KidsHealth for Parents, Children, and Teens | |
| Nemours Foundation | |
| Web Address: | www.kidshealth.org |
This Web site provides a wide range of information about children's health, from allergies and diseases to normal growth and development (birth to adolescence). This Web site offers separate areas for kids, teens, and parents, each providing age-appropriate information that the child or parent can understand. You can sign up to get weekly emails about your area of interest. | |
Organizations
| Meningitis Foundation of America | |
| 6610 North Shadeland Avenue | |
| Suite 220 | |
| Indianapolis, IN 46220 | |
| Phone: | 1-800-668-1129 (317) 595-6395 |
| Web Address: | http://www.musa.org |
This organization helps support people who have had meningitis and their families. Its Web site contains information about diagnosis and treatment. The Meningitis Foundation of America also supports the development of vaccines and other means of preventing the illness. | |
| National Meningitis Association | |
| 738 Robinson Farms Drive | |
| Marietta, GA 30068 | |
| Phone: | 1-866-FONE-NMA (1-866-366-3662) toll-free |
| Fax: | 1-877-703-6096 |
| E-mail: | support@nmaus.org |
| Web Address: | http://www.nmaus.org/ |
The National Meningitis Association (NMA) is a nonprofit group founded by five parents whose children have died or suffered long-term disabilities from meningococcal meningitis, a type of bacterial meningitis. The NMA educates families, medical professionals, and others about how to prevent bacterial meningitis. | |
| U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | |
| 1600 Clifton Road | |
| Atlanta, GA 30333 | |
| Phone: | 1-800-311-3435 (public inquiries) (404) 639-3534 (public inquiries) |
| TDD: | (404) 639-3312 |
| Web Address: | www.cdc.gov |
The Web site for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides health information for the public. The CDC is the leading federal agency for protecting U.S. citizens' health and safety by promoting health and by providing credible health information. | |
| Last updated: | January 19, 2007 |
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| Author: | Debby Golonka, MPH |
| Reviewed By: | Michael J. Sexton, MD - Pediatrics, W. David Colby IV, MSc, MD, FRCPC - Infectious Disease |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Pat Truman, MATC |
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