Meningitis can be infectious or non-infectious, and affect both healthy and sick individuals. While environmental factors such as traveling to places where some bacterial causative agents are rife, or ...

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 ...

A simple algorithm developed at the UC Davis Health System and Children's Hospital Boston can help doctors rapidly distinguish viral meningitis from bacterial meningitis in infants and children -- ...

IN September 2005, my son Isaac called home from his apartment in New York City to tell his mother he had a terrible headache and felt lousy: chills and a fever. He was a very healthy young man who ...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:18:18 GMT — The Fungal Meningitis outbreak has now reached 16 states, has been connected to 297 illnesses and 23 deaths - including 5 in Michigan so far. But what exactly is Fungal ...

Spinal meningitis, which is an inflammation that affects the protective membranes around the brain and spinal cord, is a serious and potentially deadly health problem. However, there are several ...

If Type B Meningitis were a movie character, it would be more ominous than anything we could possibly imagine. A deadly, stealth-like infection that first appears like the flu, Type B Meningitis ...

When Emily Stillman was diagnosed with meningitis Type B, her mom said it wasn’t possible. Her college-aged daughter had been inoculated for the bacterial disease. What Emily’s parents, Alicia and ...

The meningitis B vaccine is a shot that’s designed to protect you from developing this illness. Meningitis B is a serious bacterial infection that affects the lining of your brain and spinal cord. It ...

A second student at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis this month. The student, who was hospitalized on Feb. 23, is receiving treatment, the ...