The CDC recommends you get the vaccine if you are an adult and:
- Are living in a dorm as a first-year college student
- Work with meningococcal bacteria in a lab
- Are in the military
- Are traveling to or living in a country where meningococcal disease is common, such as in certain parts of Africa
- Have a damaged spleen, or it's been removed
- Have an immune system disorder called terminal complement deficiency
- Are taking eculizumab (Soliris)
- May have been exposed to meningitis during an outbreak
- Have HIV