Pneumococcal meningitis can occur when the Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria invade the bloodstream, cross the blood-brain barrier and multiply within the fluid surrounding the spine and brain ...

Meningitis is an infection of the meninges, the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. Bacteria called Streptococcus pneumonia cause pneumococcal meningitis. Symptoms include fever ...

Meningitis contributes to higher child mortality rates than estimated by the WHO, ... Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Neisseria meningitidis. Yet, reaching the World Health Organization's ...

In a tragic incident a five-year-old girl lost her life after being misdiagnosed with tonsillitis later confirmed to be ...

The pneumococcal vaccine protects against bacterial infections including meningitis, blood infections, and ear infections.

A press release from the Medical Research Council-The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, stated that the World Health Organisation ...

The pneumococcal vaccine helps prevent several pneumococcal diseases caused by the Streptococcus pneumoniae, including: Bacterial meningitis, an infection of the covering of the brain and spinal ...

Twenty-six children had 29 cases of bacterial meningitis. The incidence of meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae was 138.2 cases per 100,000 person-years (more than 30 times the incidence ...

Understand pneumococcal disease, and learn how you can safeguard your child from it. THERE are many threats to our children’s health. The figures say it all. The World Health Organisation (WHO ...

In one, a pediatrician from Raleigh, North Carolina, spoke of a baby in the 1990s with Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis, a life-threatening disease.

The agents that cause bacterial meningitis can include Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus), Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus agalactiae, and ...

Almost half of meningitis deaths occurred at the community, likely due to limited access to healthcare. While vaccines have significantly reduced cases of Streptococcus pneumoniae, this bacterium ...