Chicago health officials issue urgent alert after seven meningococcal disease cases, including two deaths. Know the symptoms ...

Viral is the most common, but other types are more dangerous ...

A fourth-grade student at Burns Science and Technology School died last week of meningitis, according to television news reports. The disease affects thousands of Americans every year, with certain ...

The outbreak linked to tainted steroids has sickened 424 people in 19 states. Nov. 7, 2012— -- Another person has died from fungal meningitis in an outbreak linked to tainted steroid injections, ...

When it comes to bacterial infections, bacterial meningitis may not be the most common one, but it is certainly among the most serious. "The most worrisome part of bacterial meningitis is the ...

Meningitis is inflammation of the fluids surrounding the brain and spinal cord that usually develops due to an infection. Type C meningitis is a type of bacterial meningitis caused by the bacteria ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)—While a student at Michigan State University was hospitalized over the weekend with meningitis, an infection and inflammation of the brain and spinal membranes, MSU health ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have tracked down 12,000 of the roughly 14,000 people who may have received contaminated steroid shots in the nation’s growing meningitis outbreak, warning ...