Viral infections are the most common cause of meningitis, followed by bacterial infections and, rarely, fungal and parasitic ...

Five students from a school in Kerala’s Ernakulam district have shown signs of viral meningitis. Two are in the ICU, but all ...

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency(NiMet) has warned of the possible outbreak of meningitis amid the heatwave in the country.

Is Kerala Under Lockdown? In the past 24 hours, the state has reported over 9 cases of meningitis among students, prompting ...

Owing to the scare, the authorities have directed the school to suspend classes temporarily till March 16. All the children ...

Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium 'Orientia tsutsugamushi', which belongs to the rickettsia family. Severe illness due ...

For the study, blood samples of people who reported fever were collected every six to eight weeks from August 2020 to July 2022.

Five young students from St Paul's International School in Kochi have been diagnosed with viral meningitis. The affected children are being treated at ...

A private school in Ernakulam, Kerala, has been closed until March 16, 2025, after five students showed meningitis symptoms.

Affecting around a tenth of rural populations in India every year, 'scrub typhus' infection, spread by the bite of an ...

It would be "a leap" to say the son of a senior doctor would have survived if his care in hospital had been different, a ...

Rural communities are at high risk of potentially life-threatening scrub typhus infections, according to a study by ...