Two Upstate students have died following complications with bacterial meningitis and meningococcemia. One of the students was ...

Meningococcal disease is a rare, but potentially fatal infection that can attack the brain and cause blood poisoning. Watch ...

CFRs for all meningococcal disease were no higher, or even lower, in epidemic periods compared with endemic disease, for example, 4.3 and 3.5% in Romania in 1970 and 1987, respectively (while the ...

Meningococcal Vaccination: The bacteria usually causes a meningitis - inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord - or a bloodstream infection, called septicemia or sepsis. But ...

Sydney Sydney, Jun 21 (The Conversation) Two Tasmanian women have been hospitalised with invasive meningococcal disease, bringing the number of cases nationally so far this year to 48. Health ...

In a concerning development, two women in Tasmania have been hospitalized after contracting invasive meningococcal disease. This raises the national tally to 48 cases this year, prompting health ...

Since the rollout of the conjugate MenC vaccine in 2001 and the MenACWY in 2018 , rates of invasive meningococcal disease have dropped dramatically, from 684 cases in 2002, to 136 cases in 2024. The ...

Two Tasmanian women have been hospitalized with invasive meningococcal disease, bringing the number of cases nationally so far this year to 48. Health authorities are urging people to watch for ...

Currently, two types of vaccines are available: a vaccine that protects against meningococcal A, C, W and Y (MenACWY); and another vaccine that protects against meningococcal B.

Meningococcal disease notifications by age and sex Babies and teens are more likely to contract the disease than other age groups. National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System ...

Dr Toby Gardner says meningococcal hard to detect with symptoms like other illnesses The potentially fatal meningococcal disease is back on the radar in Tasmania with two new cases detected.