Taiwan will expand its free pneumococcal vaccination program to include high-risk individuals aged 19 to 64 starting March 10 ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a complex and debilitating genetic blood disorder that primarily affects people of African, ...

One of the first organs affected is the spleen. The spleen is a small organ on the left ... people with sickle cell disease are roughly 300 times more likely to develop bacterial meningitis than ...

According to the National Foundation for Infectious Disease, the death rates from bacteremia and meningitis caused by invasive pneumococcal disease are very high in older people and people who ...

Back in February 2019 at just 3 month's old, Emma Cooke's son Hugo Jack Andrew Cooke was sadly fighting for his life with pneumococcal meningitis. If it wasn't for the outstanding care from ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has introduced the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine ... of serious illnesses such as pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis, particularly among children ...

replication and avoidance of filtration by the liver and spleen. Traditionally, analyzing a bacterial infection is done by culturing tissue and counting the number of resulting bacteria.

Beverly Bryan was confident on Aug. 21 as her husband headed to surgery to have his spleen removed at a Florida hospital. Bryan, a retired registered nurse, knew the procedure — a laparoscopic ...