Meningococcal meningitis: Managing outbreaks among adolescents and young adults Treatment Primary care providers are commonly the first health care professionals to treat patients with meningitis.

Some infections lead to immunity from future infections, so I understand your question. Unfortunately, since there are so ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Why aren’t meningococcal vaccines recommended for people over the age of 23? Are they assuming (wrongly) that most people have already received them or that most won’t (again, probably ...

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There have been seven cases of meningococcal disease reported in Chicago since Jan. 15, including two deaths, according to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Virginia. Five people in the state have died from complications of the disease.

In the last two weeks, Chicago has had two deaths and at least seven cases of meningococcal disease in adults — a higher ...

Chicago health officials issue urgent alert after seven meningococcal disease cases, including two deaths. Know the symptoms ...

The Chicago Department of Public Health has issued a new alert after two people recently died from a form of meningitis, and ...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC warned of a sharp increase in cases of meningococcal disease in the U.S. More than 500 cases of this serious infection marked by inflammation of the ...

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