A Northland teenager who suffered from meningitis has defied the odds by recovering to the point where he can walk and ...

While children under five, particularly those under two, are the most vulnerable, pneumococcal diseases also affect adults.

Merck , known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended the ...

At first, much the same. But inevitably, dangerous diseases would resurge in a country that isn’t prepared for them.

While Pfizer’s earlier Prevnar 13 and Prevnar 10 have made a dent in the global burden of invasive pneumococcal disease, the bacterial infection ... to pneumonia and meningitis caused by ...

Pneumococcal vaccination reduces the risk of bacterial meningitis following cochlear implantation, as reported by a recent study published in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery journal. Meningitis ...

Pneumonia is usually the result of a bacterial ... available is the pneumococcal vaccine which not only helps protect against pneumonia but also serious illnesses like meningitis and sepsis.

Pneumococcal vaccines protect against bacterial infections caused by Streptococcus ... bloodstream infections, and meningitis. The vaccines help prevent severe infections that could worsen ...

bacterial pneumonia, not elsewhere classified), which may have led to the underestimation of the number of cases of CAP caused by pneumococcus. Another study conducted in three health facilities in ...