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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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Cases Climb
Meningococcal disease cases continue to climb in Florida with 39 people infected in 15 counties since late May. Meningococcal disease is a bacterial infection that can be serious sometimes with debilitating consequences and can be deadly. Central Florida leads in the number of reported cases with 12 confirmed cases of meningococcal disease in Orange County […]
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On Board
Actress and mother, Tiffani Thiessen joins acampaign, a collaboration between Sanofi and the National Meningitis Association (NMA). The public health initiative, It’s About Time: Help Stop the Clock on Meningitis, is aimed at educating parents about the importance of potentially life-saving vaccination to protect their pre-teens and teens against meningococcal meningitis. Thiessen said, “As parents, I […]
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Baby Stricken
A baby with the parents, siblings ages 9 and 10 are from a mining region inVenezuela but currently lives in a shelter in Boa Vista, Brazil. “They entered Brazil on the 5th of April, staying for a period of 15 days in the shelter in Pacaraima. They came to the capital of Roraima on the […]
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Opening Borders
During the pandemic when things were at a standstill with people staying at home & with borders closed, there was a drop in the rate of meningococcal meningitis at the same time a decrease of number getting vaccinated. Now with school and university students back in classrooms and with borders reopening, there’s a real concern. […]
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Safety Alert
The Florida Department of Health is recommending all college students in Leon County area receive a meningitis B vaccine. The health department confirmed that, “All three cases were among college students between the ages of 18 and 22”. They also added that, “College students should get the MenB vaccine due to the serogroup B meningococcal […]
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