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Toronto Outbreak
Toronto Public Health (TPH) has confirmed three individuals, ages 20-30 years old, of invasive bacterial meningococcal disease in Toronto. One of them has died. TPH confirmed that the three people have the same rare strain of serogroup C meningococcal disease, but TPH has not been able to identify a link between these cases. Keeping up […]
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Vaccination Campaign
A vaccination campaign has just started in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region targeting populations at risk children aged 0 to 2 & young people aged 16 to 24 following the emergence of a variant of meningococcus B which infected a dozen people in a few months and caused one death. The best part of this campaign is […]
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Australian Outbreak
The New South Wales Department of Health in Australia is urging parents and young people to be alert to symptoms of meningococcal disease due to 15 cases of meningococcal meningitis reported. In Australia, meningococcal infections can occur all year round with increases in cases in late winter and early spring, with children under five and […]
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Preventable Loss
Adam Mulchrone, 21 year old student from Westport, Co. attended football training but returned home because he had a headache and started to have a fever. A GP advised he be taken to Mayo University hospital emergency on the basis of possible meningitis. At the hospital, Adam was noted to be experiencing abdominal pain, vomiting […]
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Meningitis Facts
Meningitis refers to swelling in the membranes that surround your brain and spinal cord. Meningitis can be viral or bacterial and symptoms of meningitis can include the following: fever, severe headache, vomiting, stiff neck, sensitivity to light, confusion, rash. Meningitis can be diagnosed by testing the blood and spinal fluid of the person who is […]
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Don’t Forget
Gabriel Lima Silva, 13 years old, died of meningitis after 23 days of hospitalization in the ICU of the University Hospital in Jundiaí, São Paulo. It was difficult to diagnose because his symptoms were non-specific, such as headache, stiff neck and fever. He was taken to the hospital 5 times in one week time and […]
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New Test
The GenomEra test system was developed and manufactured in Finland. Abacus Diagnostica, a Uniogen company is launching this new rapid PCR test. The automated test system can be used in almost any healthcare unit requiring no special expertise. The system consists of test chips and a GenomEra CDX instrument that automatically processes the sample and interprets the test result […]
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Vaccines Work
Paloma Pacheco, president and founder of ‘Una vida por Dakota, a non-profit institution that promotes disease prevention stated, “… vaccines play an important role in public health, since their use has been revalued as an effective health measure for the control of infectious diseases… “. Vaccines help the body get ready it’s natural defenses, the […]
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Florida Cases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported at least 24 cases of serious meningococcal disease outbreak in Florida. There were at least seven deaths among gay and bisexual men. The CDC’s Dr. José R. Romero, Director of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, advises that: “Getting vaccinated against meningococcal disease is the best […]
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Fatality Rate of Bacterial Meningitis
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) is leading an effort to ‘defeat meningitis by 2030’, to reduce cases of vaccine-preventable bacterial meningitis by 50 percent and deaths by 70 percent. Currently, 1 in 10 people who get bacterial meningitis die from the infection, even with treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports […]
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