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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The state of Virginia is warning of a statewide outbreak of meningococcal disease, a "rare but serious" bacterial illness that can lead to meningitis. Since June 2022, there have been 27 cases of the ...

Communicable disease experts are advocating for steps to be taken to protect university students against meningococcal ...

There's an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Virginia. Five people in the state have died from complications of the disease. (Photo Illustration: Victoria Ellis for Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images ...

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 ...

A new vaccine to fight meningitis, particularly in children, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to drug developer Pfizer. Mufid Majnun via Unsplash A new vaccine from ...

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 ...