• Berkeley Warning

    Posted by Rose Kwett on March 22, 2017

    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

    Posted by Rose Kwett on March 11, 2017

    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

    Posted by Rose Kwett on March 4, 2017

    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!

    Posted by Rose Kwett on February 23, 2017

    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

    Posted by Rose Kwett on February 18, 2017

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


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  • Teacher Dies

    Posted by Rose Kwett on February 13, 2017

    Montara Elementary School teacher from South Gate, CA dies from meningitis. (more…)


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  • Vaccination Battle

    Posted by Rose Kwett on February 8, 2017

    The state of New South Wales, Australia announced plans to provide free vaccinations to all 11th and 12th grade students. (more…)


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  • National Study

    Posted by Rose Kwett on January 27, 2017

    Funded and moving forward a national study on the effort to prevent meningitis B among teenage in the United Kingdom has been approved. 


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  • Soul Cycle

    Posted by Rose Kwett on January 20, 2017

    Fellow cyclists at the Soul Cycle Studio in Larkspur, CA may have been exposed to meningococcal meningitis from one of their fellow cyclist who died from this deadly disease….


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  • Vaccination Campaign

    Posted by Rose Kwett on January 13, 2017

    A vaccination campaign at the University of Nottingham and Leicester has been successful in raising the number of first year students vaccinated for MenACWY from 31% to 71%.


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