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Meningitis News

Health News Posted on May 26, 2012

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Meningitis- Related News

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Protein Discovery Could Lead To New Vaccine for Meningitis
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 ...

Researchers Closer to Meningitis B Vaccine
Trials of meningitis B vaccine show promising results, say scientists. After taking the drug, the test group generated antibodies that are active against 90 percent of strains...

Oral Bacterium Associated With Heart Diseases, Meningitis
A new bacterium of the oral cavity has been linked to heart diseases, meningitis, reveals study published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Its identi...

Novartis Reveals Development of New Meningitis Vaccine for Teens
Leading pharmaceutical giant Novartis revealed that it has developed a new vaccine that provides teenagers with full protection against meningitis B bacteria. Large scale clinical trials of...

2-year Old Who Lost Fingers to Meningitis Eats Christmas Dinner With Special Cutlery
2-year old Kaiya Jackson who lost all her fingers to meningitis ate her Christmas dinner with special cutlery attached to her wrists.The little girl spent her last Christmas in an induced co...

Meningitis Outbreak Claims 109 Lives In Brazilian State
A meningitis epidemic which was reported in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia has claimed about 109 lives so far, since the start of the year. And Brazil's superstar singer Ivete...

Universal Hib Vaccination Has Reduced Burden of Bacterial Meningitis
The incidence of Hib disease in young children has dramatically reduced over the past 20 years thanks to vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib. The latter was once the mo...

Encephalitis Outbreak Has Claimed More Than 400 Lives in India
An outbreak of encephalitis in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has claimed at least 400 lives, mainly children, officials said on Saturday. K.P. Kushwaha, chief paediatrician ...

Meningitis Researcher Warns Government Over Putting Cost Ahead of Saving Lives
An expert, who worked nearly 5 years to find a preventive vaccination for pneumococcal meningitis only to see his 11-month old son die due to the same disease just a year before a vaccinatio...

More Than 1,000 People Infected With Encephalitis In Gorakhpur
The number of people infected with encephalitis in UP's Gorakhpur district has crossed 1,100 mark. Several patients have been admitted to the city's Baba Raghav Das Medical College. ...

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