Health officials are alerting doctors to be on the lookout for certain types of rare, serious meningococcal infections that are on the rise in the United States.
A 5-year-old has died of bacterial meningitis in Cape May County.
The list already includes polio, mumps, measles, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria, Hepatitis B, chickenpox, Haemophilus influenza and pneumococcal disease.
An elementary school classroom has been sanitized after a central New Jersey teacher came down with viral meningitis.
Health officials in Newark met with parents Tuesday hoping to ease fears after a student died of a suspected case of bacterial meningitis, but a change in information may do more to stoke the outcry.