An 18-year old woman, who attended Canberra’s Spilt Milk Festival on Saturday, 26th November, has died of meningococcal. The news comes following a public statement from the state’s health department, ...

Fourteen people who may have been exposed to an East Chapel Hill High School student with meningococcal disease are being treated with antibiotics, Orange County Health Department officials said ...

Sixteen hours later she was dead. The third-year QUT Media and Communications ­student had inexplicably contracted meningococcal disease (W strain), although it would take a week for her grieving ...

THAT'S the sad conclusion Queensland's deputy coroner reached on Friday after an inquest into the teenager's death, and that of another patient, uncovered systemic problems in the region's hospitals.

The state of Virginia is seeing an outbreak of meningococcal disease, its health department said Wednesday. Meningococcal disease is rare but serious, particularly when it includes meningitis, which ...

There's a new way for young people to combat a bacterial disease that can cause hearing loss, severe neurological damage, the loss of limbs, and, in many cases, death. Meningococcal disease, while ...

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The Australian Academy of Science—an organization representing the country's leading scientists—is raising awareness of a potentially deadly disease, urging parents to ensure that their children are ...

A vaccination campaign against meningococcal B bacteria has been launched in the Chambéry and Lyon-East regions of France. This campaign follows an increase in cases of infection since June 2022 with ...

SINCE her daughter’s sudden death last year, Kirsten McGinty has been lobbying for free vaccines against all strains of meningococcal disease. Her three teenage kids were mucking around on their ...

The third-year QUT Media and Communications ­student had inexplicably contracted meningococcal disease (W strain), although it would take a week for her grieving family to learn her cause of death. In ...