The Ashanti Region recorded 42 cases of meningitis in 2024, representing a 133% increase from the 18 cases recorded a year before.

Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be ...

The Directorate General of Health Services, or DGHS, has taken over the responsibility for administering the meningitis vaccine for Bangladeshis travelling abroad. The DGHS says it will fix ...

Meningitis can be contagious, and people with weak immune systems are especially vulnerable. Some types of meningitis are not contagious (spread from person to person). Meningitis is an inflammation ...

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA Work on the blood–brain barrier and bacterial meningitis in KS Doran's laboratory is supported by funding from the NIH/NINDS (grant no.

Hib was the leading cause of meningitis in children under 5 years of age. Meningitis is a serious infection of the lining covering the brain and spinal cord and has a mortality rate of 2-5%.

Bacterial meningitis is a severe and life-threatening infection of the central nervous system (CNS), primarily caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis. This condition carries a ...

Waiblingen – Bosch Healthcare Solutions (BHCS) has developed a new PCR test Vivalytic Bacterial Meningitis for its Vivalytic analysis platform. The test can detect six important bacterial meningitis ...

Rehabilitation Medicine Department, The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University (The First Hospital of Changsha, Changsha, China Tuberculous meningitis ...

Haemophilus influenzae is a bacterium that can trigger severe respiratory infections, including pneumonia, meningitis, and epiglottitis.