About 10,000 UW-Madison students so far immunized at special clinic

Over 10,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students have been vaccinated at a special campus clinic over the past week against a type of meningococcal disease that sent two students to the hospital earlier this month.

"We have had a very good response," physician Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services, said Wednesday.

The university anticipates reaching a total of 15,000 students through the special clinic set up at the SERF recreational facility through Thursday, when it will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The second dose of the vaccine will be made available in a month for those who just got the first dose.

UW-Madison has urged all undergraduates to get the vaccine to protect against the potentially deadly disease. Most students are vaccinated against four types of meningococcal disease, but not the one that the two students contracted.