Teens are vulnerable to meningococcal meningitis, an unpredictable disease that can strike without warning and lead to ...

The Health Council has advised that meningococcal B vaccinations should not yet be added to the Dutch National Immunisation ...

It comes after an outbreak in Kent earlier this year when two people died, and in Dorset last month where three young people also contracted the disease. BBC South has been looking at the key ...

A college student has died and two people are being treated after cases of meningitis in Reading, Berkshire, the UK Health ...

This week, Southern England was rocked by what health officials called an “explosive” wave of meningococcal meningitis infections that resulted in 11 “probable” and 20 confirmed cases, including two ...

Primary care providers are commonly the first health care professionals to treat patients with meningitis. Early in the course of illness, patients present with flu-like symptoms. Often the PCP will ...

There's a new way for young people to combat a bacterial disease that can cause hearing loss, severe neurological damage, the loss of limbs, and, in many cases, death. Meningococcal disease, while ...

Meningococcal meningitis is a serious bacterial infection that causes infection of the tissue surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Most people recover from meningitis, however, serious complications ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

A woman in her 60s from central Taiwan who died of meningococcal meningitis one day after the onset of symptoms is the first person in Taiwan to die of the disease this year, the Centers for Disease ...

Florida is facing several disease outbreaks—COVID, monkeypox, dengue fever. But meningococcal disease is now on the minds of health experts, too. So you may be wondering: What should you know and what ...

Monroe County health officials said someone at Bloomington High School South has a suspected case of meningococcal disease, a ...