A fourth-grade student at Burns Science and Technology School died last week of meningitis, according to television news reports. The disease affects thousands of Americans every year, with certain ...

Meningitis is inflammation of the fluids surrounding the brain and spinal cord that usually develops due to an infection. Type C meningitis is a type of bacterial meningitis caused by the bacteria ...

The symptoms include a high temperature or fever, being sick, a headache, stiff neck, dislike of bright lights, drowsiness or ...

A high school student has died after contracting meningitis. Ryan Duffy, 18, was a senior at Neshaminy High School in ...

Two Upstate students have died following complications with bacterial meningitis and meningococcemia. One of the students was a 12-year-old named Ansley "Payce" Chappell, a seventh grader who attended ...

A national nonprofit is warning parents of children and young adults that there is more than one form of meningitis – and the main meningococcal vaccine does not cover all of them. The American ...

Bacterial meningitis, also known as pyogenic meningitis, is a type of meningitis caused by a bacterial infection. Meningitis means an inflammation of the meninges, the thin membranes that surround the ...

A Pennsylvania teenager has died from bacterial meningitis, months before graduating from high school, according to the ...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Parents are being cautioned to be aware of the dangers of bacterial meningitis and to be on the lookout for the symptoms. A student at the Sikeston Seventh and Eighth Grade Center is ...

A Bucks County high school student has died from bacterial meningitis, according to the county's Department of Health. The ...

The brother of a 21-year-old who died after contracting meningitis is calling for people of university age "not to dismiss their illness as freshers' flu". Lucas Martin died on 12 September 2023 after ...