Medically reviewed by Josephine Hessert, DO Key Takeaways Meningococcal meningitis spreads through saliva and requires close ...

When it comes to bacterial infections, bacterial meningitis may not be the most common one, but it is certainly among the most serious. "The most worrisome part of bacterial meningitis is the ...

British investigators have discovered two new vaccines that can prevent the transmission of meningitis bacteria from person to person. The vaccines do this by reducing 'carriage' of the responsible ...

Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the membranes around your brain and spinal cord caused by a type of bacteria. It’s a serious condition that you can catch from other people. It’s treated with ...

World Meningitis Day is observed annually on October 5, since being established in 2009 by a group of people affected by the disease. Although meningitis is largely preventable through the use of ...

A meningitis study will take place on campus March 2-5, Medical Director of Health Services Unab Khan announced in a campus-wide email Feb. 27. Representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Federal health officials are warning states about the potential for more meningitis outbreaks after confirming that a Minnesota man had the same deadly strain of meningitis that has caused outbreaks ...

Five young students from St. Paul's International School in Ernakulam district in Kerala have been hospitalised with symptoms suggestive of viral meningitis, a condition that causes inflammation of ...

All reported meningitis epidemics in the Sahel have occurred during the dry season, which runs from December to May (Lapeyssonnie 1963). Greenwood et al. (1984) first documented a correlation between ...

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