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Meningitis is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 2, 2009.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 19, 2007	WikiProject peer review	Collaborated
November 2, 2008	WikiProject peer review	Collaborated
November 10, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
March 9, 2009	Featured article candidate	Promoted
Current status: Featured article

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