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 ...

An estimated 1,400 to 2,800 cases of meningococcal meningitis occur in the United States every year. Here is some additional information about bacterial meningitis: What are the signs and symptoms?

Two Upstate students have died following complications with bacterial meningitis and meningococcemia. One of the students was a 12-year-old named Ansley "Payce" Chappell, a seventh grader who attended ...

In a concerning turn of events, multiple cases of viral meningitis have been reported in Kolkata, sparking fear among residents and health authorities. A group of schoolchildren in the city was ...

Former Australian cricket legend Damien Martyn has been placed in an induced coma after being diagnosed with life-threatening meningitis. The condition causes inflammation of the brain and spinal cord ...

A fourth-grade student at Burns Science and Technology School died last week of meningitis, according to television news reports. The disease affects thousands of Americans every year, with certain ...

John B. Grimes lost his vision as a Texas Tech student. Shared clinical decision-making for vaccines sounds reasonable, but ...

At least two Americans have died and 17 have suspected or probable cases of a potentially deadly infection linked to an outbreak at cosmetic surgery clinics in Mexico. The infected patients contracted ...

That slight fever and headache your child woke up with? Most of the time, it’s nothing serious. But sometimes, those seemingly innocent symptoms can be the first whispers of something far more ...

I know firsthand what meningococcal meningitis can do to a body. I contracted it at 9 months old. I survived the illness and now live with severe scarring on my skin, along with amputation of some ...

The CDC is no longer recommending that all adolescents and teens get vaccinated for potentially fatal bacterial meningitis, ...