Two weeks after 18-year-old Lucas Rosalez died of meningococcal disease, his mother saw a public service announcement about the vaccine she believes would have saved him. "I wish I would have known," ...

In the spring of 2012, I lost my 17-year-old daughter to a disease that is now preventable by vaccine. Just days away from prom and her high school graduation, Kimberly felt ill one day after school.

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The head of a now-defunct Massachusetts pharmacy was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for his role in a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and left hundreds of others with ...

Update, 12/7/17: Port Neches-Groves ISD said Thursday that the student who was tested for meningitis is "not infectious," and said the illness has been contained. "The student is improving steadily ...

Meningitis is a serious medical condition that affects the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, the meninges. While fever is not always present, it is usually considered as one of ...

Lockdowns in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic had the unintended effect of making both children and adults more vulnerable to other diseases, according to a new study, by keeping many of them ...

Meningitis can be quickly spotted in babies with "great accuracy" thanks to a new non-invasive test. A study showed that it identified the potentially deadly infection in newborns and infants with 94% ...