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World Meningitis Day
Siân Liddle from Bingham, is sharing her story to help raise awareness of World Meningitis Day (April 24), which focuses on ‘Life After Meningitis’ and to support her charity Meningitis Now. Siân fell ill with meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia in 1995 when she was only two years old. Initially a viral infection was diagnosed and […]
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Bad Advice
Greg, a father who lost his baby son to deadly meningococcal meningitis blasted boxer Anthony Mundine’s anti-vaccination comments. “Mundine wrote on Facebook and Twitter: “Don’t vaccine your kids period! The government bully you into vaccine (SIC) Do your research on the s*** & watched the documentary vaxxed.” Greg said, “My wife’s a nurse and my […]
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Student Dies
A second-grade student at Saegert Elementary School, Killeen has died from bacterial meningitis. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services the student who died reportedly had pneumococcal meningitis which is typically more common and less severe than meningococcal meningitis, which is caused by a different bacteria. The state health department said, “131 people […]
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Spokane Case
A case of meningococcal meningitis is being investigated by the Spokane County health officials in Sacajawea Middle School involving a female student. Dr. Bob Lutz, SRHD health officer said, “We make sure they are up to date on their vaccinations and if close contact occurred—where saliva droplets may have been shared—we recommend these individuals look for […]
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Sneaky Killer
Montreal’s Marianopolis College student died after her 18th birthday celebration of meningococcal infection. She got sick her birthday party and had to leave the event early. Student Ambro Kanawati.said, “It was her birthday and she was drinking, then she started vomiting and everyone thought that she was vomiting because she drank too much, but it […]
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“Fake” Vaccine
Niger health authorities said, “they had found a fake version of a meningitis vaccine after launching a vaccination campaign to inoculate 5 million children against the disease”. The Ministry of Public Health Dr. Idi Illiassou Mainassara said the bogus vaccine, Mencevax ACWY, had been discovered during a “routine inspection” in the Niger capital city of […]
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Louisville Blues
An undergraduate student of the University of Louisville (UofL) has been diagnosed and hospitalized with meningococcal meningitis. The student is in good condition, resides in a UofL residential hall with a roommate who has not shown symptoms of the disease and is being treated prophylactically. Bacterial meningitis is best prevented by these two vaccines. Both […]
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Community Effort
Many families in the Hikurangi community were on high alert after the death of a local girl of meningococcal W last year. Many people could not afford to pay to immunise children so Shona Whitehead has set a goal to raise $20,000 by the end of April so children at Hikurangi School who are not […]
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Second Case
A second student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick was hospitalized & diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. The first student had serogroup B meningococcal disease (MenB) & has been released from the hospital. Testing is being done to determine the specific type/serogroup of meningococcal bacteria in the 2nd student. School officials and doctors are trying to […]
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Too Late
Alexis Albert died in July after contracting meningococcal disease six days after she celebrated her seventh birthday. Her mother Rowshae said, “I was actually quite hurt hearing that the Government are actually taking this seriously. Why didn‘t the Government or the health officials announce this actually during the winter season where it started peaking?” The […]
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