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Published: May 13, 2007
Meningitis survivor urges students to get vaccinated
By Jennifer Mock
Amanda Moran woke up one fall morning in 2003 ready to move into her dorm at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond .

Instead, she ended up in the hospital with meningitis, missed her first semester of school and still has debilitating migraine headaches as a result of the disease.

And it all could have been avoided.

Moran and other meningitis survivors were at the Capitol last week urging lawmake...

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