Texas college student tries to save others from meningitis - USA

Jamie Schanbaum is more than a survivor; she's a young woman with a mission. Struck by meningitis as a University of Texas at Austin sophomore at age 20, she battled the infection for months and lived -- but at the cost of her her fingers and both legs below the knee.

When she learned that the meningitis vaccine could have prevented all her pain, she fought tirelessly to help get the Jamie Schanbaum act passed, which requires all students living in university housing to have the vaccination. Now a junior at UT Austin, she's fighting to get the act expanded to include all incoming students. It's a move that the parents of Nicolis "Nico" Williams say might have saved their child, a 20-year-old at Texas A & M University who died of meningitis in February. He had not been required to get the vaccination because he was living off campus.

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Source: The Dallas Morning News, United States of America