Meningitis

Greetings Builders,

A number of team members have asked whether they should get vaccinated for meningitis. Though we here at BTWA assiduously avoid disseminating our own strongly-held medical opinions, we did, upon receiving these inquiries, review our notes--a jumbled mess of Porutuguese and English--from our visit with Dr. Francisco Godinho at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Lisbon. When we found nothing about meningitis we called Dr. Godinho who assured us that a two-week visit during which we will have only incidental contact with children does not, in his opinion, justify a meningitis vaccination. If the trip were a month or if we were going to be working closely with children every day, he says, the situation might be different.

Dr. Godinho's opinion does not mean, Builders, that you should not ask your own physicians for theirs and follow the advice of whom you trust. It's just the lastest word from Lisbon, admittedly a happening place.

Have a great Thursday (one of the really underrated days of the week).

Jordan