Few infectious diseases are as frightening as meningococcus. It’s every parent’s nightmare: a healthy teenager with a few standard complaints—a little fever, maybe some headache—goes to sleep for the ...

Between rampant myths about vaccine safety and competing guidelines for pediatric vaccines floating around on the web, it's easy to see why parents might be confused about what shots their kids need ...

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is reporting an outbreak of meningococcal diseases in Florida. So far, at least 26 cases and 7 deaths have occurred, all among gay and bisexual men ...

College students are far more likely than others to develop a rare, but potentially deadly, type of bacterial infection, a new study shows. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Thinking back, I can easily remember when cases of acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) due to Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus), and Streptococcus pneumoniae ...

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 ...

Meningococcus group B, the most prevalent strain of meningococcal infection, is prevented with 79 per cent effectiveness in children and young adults inoculated with the 4CMenB vaccine, also known as ...

A fast-growing outbreak of meningitis in southern England has killed a teenager and a 21-year-old student at the University of Kent and sickened at least 27 people. Health officials in the United ...

“It’s scary and important to think about,” Elizabeth Murray, DO, MBA, pediatric emergency medicine doctor, tells SheKnows. However, thanks to modern medicine, “it’s not an overly common medical ...