More than 80% of US adolescents received at least one dose of the meningococcal vaccine MenACWY. However, uptake of its first dose and completion of the booster dose varied by race or ethnicity, ...

Any infection caused by the Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis) bacteria is called meningococcal disease. Meningococcal disease is very serious. It can lead to limb amputations, hearing loss, ...

May 30, 2025 – The FDA has approved the first-ever meningococcal vaccine for babies as young as 6 weeks old. Sanofi Pasteur’s quadrivalent MenQuadfi shot was first cleared in 2020 for adults and ...

Invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis is primarily associated with serogroups A, B, C, W, X, and Y and is characterised by its sudden, unpredictable nature and devastating ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers meet next week, but their agenda suggests they’ll skip some expected topics — including a vote on Covid shots — while taking up a ...

GSK plc GSK announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (“CDC”) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (“ACIP”) voted favorably, recommending the use of Penmenvy ...

Meningococcal vaccines lower your risk of bacterial meningitis and other illnesses from Neisseria meningitidis bacteria. U.S. vaccines include MenACWY (A, C, W, Y), MenB (B), and MenABCWY (A, B, C, W, ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Why aren’t meningococcal vaccines recommended for people over the age of 23? Are they assuming (wrongly) that most people have already received them or that most won’t (again, probably ...

A college student has died and two people are being treated after cases of meningitis in Reading, Berkshire, the UK Health ...