Here's why there are such a wide variety of symptoms associated with meningitis and why not every form of meningitis is ...

Adults who had bacterial meningitis as children experienced disparities in earnings and education by age 30, highlighting ...

Despite the availability of effective treatments and vaccines against certain types of meningitis, the disease remains a major global health threat. Bacterial meningitis, the deadliest form ...

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“Ten, 15 percent of us carry the bacteria around in our nose.” Most bacterial meningitis occur in strains covered by the widely-received and CDC-recommended vaccine, but the strain at UW-Madison isn’t ...

Understanding how bacteria form communities on surfaces, including biofilms, has significant implications for both health and ...

The WHO estimated 2.5 million annual cases globally in 2019, which includes 1.6 million cases of bacterial meningitis and 240,000 deaths. Credit: MargJohnsonVA via Shutterstock. Meningitis is a ...

Armed with new data, GSK is preparing to file for approval of its new-generation meningitis vaccine, as it tries to maintain its leadership in the category against a challenge from Pfizer.

Emil C Reisinger is a Full Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine and Dean of Students Affairs at Rostock University ...

The new vaccine is a combination of GSK’s already-approved vaccines Bexsero and Menveo and is designed to protect against meningitis and blood poisoning caused by the A, B, C, W, and Y ...

It is usually full of pus, painful, and may feel thick and swollen. This is typically caused by a bacterial infection. A skin abscess may appear on any part of your body. It is similar to a pimple ...