LOWER TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A 5-year-old has died of bacterial meningitis in Cape May County. Lilyana Fernandez was preparing to begin kindergarten at the Douglas Memorial School in Lower Township when ...

Bacterial meningitis is uncommon in otherwise healthy children with a first complex febrile seizure. The authors concluded that "LP should be performed on the basis of clinical suspicion and ...

Meningitis contributes to higher child mortality rates than estimated by the WHO, according to a new study by the CHAMPS network and led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an ...

Jan. 23 -- FRIDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Over the past year, five Minnesota children have fallen ill -- one fatally -- with a germ that can cause meningitis, experts at the U.S. Centers for ...

The CDC is no longer recommending that all adolescents and teens get vaccinated for potentially fatal bacterial meningitis, although the shots are still available for high-risk patients.

New meningitis cases reported in northern and southern Gaza. Gaza's remaining hospitals are overwhelmed. Doctors say lack of nutrition raises vulnerability. GAZA − In a ward of Nasser hospital in ...

A vaccine has been around since 1971, but some are not aware. Sept. 6, 2007 — -- Evan Bozof, a healthy baseball player and pre-med student at Georgia Southwestern University, thought he was ...

The number of cases of meningitis and blood poisoning is decreasing, and this is clearly due to the inclusion, since 2006, of pneumococcal disease into the child immunization program. "Before it was ...

Andy Marso is only one person who almost lost their lives to the preventable disease. This new guidance puts an unbearable burden on parents and doctors. (Star file photo) There are very few diseases ...

As a mother who lost my son, and as a survivor of bacterial meningitis, we know too well the devastating toll this disease can take and how quickly it can strike, and how permanently it can alter ...