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 Birmingham ...

Over 30 years, pediatrician Debbie Greenhouse has seen the worst of what infectious diseases can do but never seen a child ...

Serious pneumococcal infections include pneumonia, meningitis febrile bacteremia, otitis media, sinusitis and bronchitis are more common but less serious manifestations. Pneumococcal resistance to ...

Finnley Osmo's parents say his symptoms were written off as "normal".(Supplied) Finnley's medical records, seen by the ABC, ...

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

According to DOH, the BCG vaccine protects infants against tuberculosis. The letters B, C, and G stand for Bacillus ...

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 ...

Toby spent eight days in a medically induced coma when he was seven after what at first appeared to be a high temperature and stomach bug proved to be pneumococcal meningitis which caused severe ...

The directive, which nullifies a previous circular issued last month mandating meningitis shots ... to take the flu jab prior to their trips. Pneumococcal vaccine is also advised for those ...