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People often confuse meningococcal disease and meningitis, but they are not the same condition. While they share similar symptoms and treatments, they can have different causes. Both conditions may be ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an alert to health care providers about bacterial infections as a strain of the meningococcal disease begins to circulate within the United ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new health alert that these infections, which are caused by a certain strain of Neisseria meningitidis bacteria, may present with unusual ...

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 ...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC warned of a sharp increase in cases of meningococcal disease in the U.S. More than 500 cases of this serious infection marked by inflammation of the ...

The CDC advises everyone, including those with HIV, to be “up to date on their meningococcal vaccines" Liza Esquibias is a Writer-Reporter on the TV team at PEOPLE. She was previously an Editorial ...

The first pentavalent vaccine approved against all five major serogroups of meningococcal disease has clinicians evaluating the optimal timing for vaccination, according to a new analysis. Vaccines ...

Meningococcal disease, caused by Neisseria meningitidis, is a life-threatening, highly transmissible infection. It is caused by a bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis), which is a normal ...