West Virginia senators voted to dismantle one of the nation’s strictest school vaccination policies Friday by greenlighting an exemption for families who say mandated inoculations conflict with their ...

An outbreak of meningitis has killed no fewer than 26 people in three Local Government Areas of Kebbi State. The Commissioner for Health, Yanusa Ismail, disclosed this during a press conference in ...

Since the introduction of the MenA conjugate vaccine in the African meningitis belt through mass vaccination campaigns and its inclusion in the Essential Program on Immunization (EPI), cases of ...

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub ...

Recurrent meningitis is a rare but serious condition, occurring in about 5% of cases of community-acquired meningitis.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities confirmed Tuesday that a meningitis outbreak in the northwest was behind the death of at least 26 people over several weeks. The spread of the disease ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) suspects that poisoning or meningitis could explain a mysterious illness that has reportedly killed 53 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A similar quandary befell locals in Karachi, who recently faced a shortage of the meningitis vaccine. Arsalan, a 19-year-old receiving treatment for meningitis at a hospital in North Nazimabad ...

Aseptic meningitis is a type of meningitis caused by something other than bacteria, usually a virus. It causes the tissues covering your brain and spinal cord to become inflamed. Aseptic ...

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Nigerian Authorities Confirm Meningitis Outbreak in Northwest Has Killed 26 People Since January ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities confirmed Tuesday that a meningitis outbreak in the ...