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 ...
DETROIT, Mich– In 2013, Emily Stillman was a 19-year-old Sophmore at Kalamazoo College when she contracted Meningitis B, and passed away just hours later. Now Emily’s mother, Alicia Stillman, is ...
NEWARK (WABC) -- Health officials in Newark met with parents Tuesday hoping to ease fears after a student died of a suspected case of bacterial meningitis, but a change in information may do more to ...
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 ...
Following the CDC’s downgrade of the childhood vaccination schedule, pediatricians are warning it could have impacts on ...
Viral is the most common, but other types are more dangerous ...
A school-aged youth living in Cayuga County has been hospitalized with a clinically diagnosed case of bacterial meningitis. Kathleen Cuddy, the county's deputy director of health services, said an ...
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 ...
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD/Gray News) – A 7-month-old baby died after being diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and the flu at the same time. Christopher Santos and his wife said their daughter Maya ...