Pneumococcal meningitis is a serious bacterial infection of the membranes that cover your spinal cord and brain. It’s caused by a common bacteria that many people have in their bodies, but in ...

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

Pneumococcal diseases are bacterial infections that can affect ... result in serious health problems. These include a middle ear infection, a blood infection, pneumonia, or bacterial meningitis.

IPDs are also found in adults. In 2018, the incidence of pneumococcal disease in India was 31.3 percent for adults aged 60 and older, 22.7 percent for adults aged 44–60, and 13.9 percent for ...

I don’t remember anyone talking about meningitis, even pneumococcal meningitis, which Mel had with septicaemia. Mel had none of the symptoms you would have expected, like the rash that won't go ...

CHESTERTON -- Roxann and Dean Campbell did everything they could, did all the right things. When 4-year-old Jordan threw up on the way home from preschool and ran a slight fever, they took him to ...

The CDC now says everyone 50 to 64 years old should get a pneumococcal vaccine to help protect against serious illnesses like pneumonia, meningitis, and bloodstream infections.

Compared with no dexamethasone treatment, early administration of dexamethasone in children with pneumococcal meningitis lowered 30-day all-cause mortality by 50%, a new study showed. Overall ...