Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be expected.

Polk County’s level of immunization for kindergartners dropped from 96.3% in 2021 to 93.2% in 2023, still above the statewide ...

While children under five, particularly those under two, are the most vulnerable, pneumococcal diseases also affect adults.

Merck , known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended the ...

"As a resident, I cared for a young, unvaccinated child admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit with life-threatening Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis. This devastating illness ...

Within a day, the child was dead, felled by pneumococcus meningitis, often called strep pneumo. That is one of the potentially fatal illnesses for which babies are normally vaccinated, receiving a ...

At first, much the same. But inevitably, dangerous diseases would resurge in a country that isn’t prepared for them.

Just-reported data from that study has shown that Vaxcyte's VAX-31 shot was able to stimulate a strong immune response against all 31 serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae included in the ...

I have worked in pediatric emergency departments for the past 35 years—since before the innovative conjugate vaccines against ...

Hospitalization costs were higher for cases of meningitis and among individuals aged 60-years ... the inclusion of the disease-agnostic code B95.3 (Streptococcus pneumoniae as the cause of diseases ...