The CDC's abrupt shift away from recommending routine meningococcal disease vaccination in childhood will leave more children and adolescents at risk of rare but potentially devastating infections, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Florida Department of Health are investigating what is being called one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease in U.S. history.

"Identifying contributing factors to low vaccine uptake, such as the association between local deprivation and uptake of meningococcal vaccines, should be of public health importance and acknowledged ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to be on the lookout for potentially deadly meningococcal disease linked to travel to Saudi Arabia. Since April, there have been 12 ...

People often confuse meningococcal disease and meningitis, but they are not the same condition. While they share similar symptoms and treatments, they can have different causes. Both conditions may be ...

The latest study to show high efficacy of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (Doxy PEP) in preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among men who have sex with men (MSM) adds a new twist, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Virginia. Five people in the state have died from complications of the disease.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA will review GSK’s five-in-one meningococcal vaccine candidate for approval. The agency has already ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Between 2009 and 2019, people with HIV had a sixfold higher risk of invasive meningococcal disease. Many people ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago Department of Public Health has issued a new warning, following a local uptick in invasive bacterial meningococcal disease cases. So far, there have been eight cases of ...

Phoebe Williams receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and Medical Research Future Fund. She is a paediatric infectious diseases consultant, who leads the immunisation ...