Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be expected if you or a loved one is diagnosed with it. Meningitis is an ...

A fourth-grade student at Burns Science and Technology School died last week of meningitis, according to television news ...

Meningitis occurs when bacteria, viruses, or fungi attack the meninges and cause inflammation of the nervous tissue. Some types of meningitis are contagious. You can get it from kissing ...

"Patients can go from being well to very sick within hours." Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be expected if you ...

It can be caused by a number of different kinds of bacteria, including several types of ... of bacterial meningitis in the UK and peaks in babies of around 5-6 months of age.

Review of hospital discharge ICD-9 codes identified 685 patients younger than 6 months of age discharged with a diagnosis of UTI or meningitis during the study period; 299 infants were excluded ...

So the meningitis vaccine which protects against very serious illness, meningococcal meningitis is invasive disease and every year children and teenagers get seriously ill and even die from ...