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Washington: Researchers have identified a protein responsible for bacterial meningitis. Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the meninges, the protective membrane that covers the spinal cord and brain. Children, elderly patients and ...
May 26, 2012 at 03:45 | Source: zeenews.india.com
LIVONIA (AP) — Public health officials say they've confirmed that a 19-year-old Central Michigan University student from suburban Detroit who died earlier this month had bacterial meningitis. The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report ...
May 18, 2012 at 10:07 | Source: The Oakland Press
Meningococcal meningitis is caused by the bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, which causes the most severe form of bacterial meningitis. Meningitis is an infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. It can also be found in the bloodstream.
May 28, 2012 at 21:29 | Source: Examiner
LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) -- Public health officials say they've confirmed that a 19-year-old Central Michigan University student from suburban Detroit who died earlier this month had bacterial meningitis. Final test results following the death of ...
May 18, 2012 at 15:36 | Source: Midland Daily News
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Health officials in Lane County say they're not seeing new cases of the disease that killed a University of Oregon student last week, but a potential incubation period isn't over yet. No new cases of bacterial meningitis had been ...
May 15, 2012 at 19:14 | Source: nola.com
GALLIANO, La. (AP) — A Galliano woman who lost her son to bacterial meningitis in 2006 is working to promote public awareness of a vaccine for the disease. "The reason I do what I do is so no other mom out there has to go through what I go through every ...
May 14, 2012 at 12:35 | Source: NECN
The Wayne County Health and Human Services Department is waiting for official test results confirming that a form of bacterial meningitis is what killed a Livonia teen Thursday night. Nick Collins, 19, a freshman at Central Michigan University ...
May 13, 2012 at 11:46 | Source: HometownLife.com
Bacterial meningitis and septicaemia affect around 3,400 people in the UK each year, killing more children under the age of five than any other infectious disease. There is currently no vaccine to protect against meningococcal serogroup B which causes the ...
May 25, 2012 at 15:06 | Source: Lancashire Telegraph
Livonia— Final test results for the 19-year-old Central Michigan University student who died last week came back positive for a strain of bacterial meningitis for which there is no vaccine. Nicholas Collins died last Thursday night at St. Mary ...
May 17, 2012 at 17:46 | Source: detroitnews.com
LIVONIA — Public health officials say they’ve confirmed that a 19-year-old Central Michigan University student from suburban Detroit who died earlier this month had bacterial meningitis. The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report ...
May 18, 2012 at 10:50 | Source: Lansing State Journal