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Silver Lining
Erica Tambrini, 34 year old occupational therapist from Indiana USA, had both legs below the knee and both arms below the elbow amputated due to meningitis and…
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Back Home
Luke Mortimer, a seven-year-old Skipton boy, lost his hands and legs to meningococcal meningitis A rugby player, he is back home after a five-month…
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History Proves
The coronavirus has brought the world & its economies to a halt so the subject of vaccines is in the spotlight again. As early…
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Vaccine Approved
US FDA approved MenQuadfi, the first quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine aged two years and above. The vaccine uses tetanus toxoid as a protein carrier and…
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Re-vaccination Needed
A new study “New Zealand Meningococcal Market Research 2019” commissioned by GSK, has found a lack of understanding about the need to vaccinate against the disease.
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World Meningitis Day is April 24
Even though we’re in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic devastating lives around the globe, awareness efforts on World Meningitis Day is still happening this April 24!
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Some Similarities
Meningitis & encephalitis though different, both conditions involve inflammation and can be dangerous. Dr. Katie L. Hendley, a neurologist with Covenant Medical Group in Lubbock, Texas,…
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Vaccine-preventable diseases
Scientists are working diligently to come up with a vaccine to prevent the continuation of COVID-19 pandemic. There are many diseases though that we…
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Didn’t See
A doctor who diagnosed Daniel Christopher Roulant, 22, a young Queenslander with a cold had no way of knowing he would die from meningitis six days later.
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Tragic Loss
Everett Halikas, an Arcata High School athlete was rushed to UCSF and died of a form of bacterial meningitis. Dr. Teresa Frankovich, Humboldt County’s…
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