An Arizona woman is fighting for her life after contracting fungal meningitis following a plastic surgery procedure at a private clinic in Matamoros, Mexico. Alondra Lomas is one of nine confirmed ...

A second American has died of suspected fungal meningitis after undergoing surgery in Mexico, US officials announced Wednesday. At least another 224 other Americans are at risk of contracting the ...

At least three Americans have died and 17 have suspected or probable cases of a potentially life-threatening infection linked to an outbreak at cosmetic surgery clinics in Mexico. A multistate ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — State and federal health officials are warning U.S. residents to cancel planned surgeries in a Mexico border city after five people from Texas who got procedures there came ...

This paper estimates the risk of bacterial meningitis following surgery between 1996 and 2009 in Denmark. We conducted two retrospective nationwide cohort studies; first by linking notified bacterial ...

A second death in the US has been attributed to a suspected fungal meningitis outbreak among people who had surgery under epidural anesthesia in Matamoros, Mexico, the US Centers for Disease Control ...

A DEADLY meningitis outbreak was caused by a fungus that ate through blood vessels and attacked patients’ brains, doctors have revealed. The infections killed at least 12 people in Matamoros, Mexico, ...

Symptoms of fungal meningitis include fever, headache, stiff neck, nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light and confusion, according to the CDC. The husband of a mother of four who died after ...

An inquest has heard a "kind-hearted and caring" teenager was admitted to hospital with a suspected ear infection but later died from meningitis. Callum Hubbard, 14, died on 8 February 2014 at ...

Patients were infected with fungal meningitis after being injected with a contaminated needle — are you at risk? A DEADLY meningitis outbreak was caused by a fungus that ate through blood vessels and ...