• Trust Your Instincts

    The theme for this year’s World Meningits Day is : “24 Hours — Trust Your Instincts.” (more…)


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  • Crisis Worsens

    Nigeria has taken delivery of only 500,000 doses out of 1.3 million doses of vaccines for meningitis type C strain outbreak. (more…)


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  • Meningitis Drill

    The meningitis drill event, which involves some 350 volunteers and emergency response partners includes a presentation by former Springfield resident and Paralympic Game gold medalist Nicholas Springer who contracted…


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  • Meningitis Hot Spot

    The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reports that there have been eight cases of meningococcal disease confirmed this year, including one death. Recent cases serve as reminder…


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  • State Acts Quickly

    The death toll as a result of the meningitis epidemic in Sokoto State has now risen to 21. (more…)


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  • Berkeley Warning

    With cases in previous years, the California Department of Public Health, California universities had a meningitis outbreak in November 2013, which resulted in up to four deaths. Local health…


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  • Doctor Dies

    Dr John Spalding, 55, a practising GP for 27 years, woke up with a cold at 3am on December 23, 2014, after wrapping with presents with his wife, Di,…


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  • New Zealand case

    A New Zealand teenager from Wairarapa College on the North Island escaped death without serious complications from meningitis earlier this month.


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  • West Africa hit!

    The meningitis belt of West Africa has been hit again with an outbreak of this deadly disease. (more…)


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  • Santa Barbara hit again

    This year a Santa Barbara City College student has been hospitalized with Type B meningococcal meningitis. (more…)


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