Meningococcal is an uncommon, life-threatening illness that is caused by a bacterial infection of the blood or membranes ...

WA Health has reported that an adult has been diagnosed with meningococcal serogroup B disease and is recovering in hospital.Meningococcal disease is ...

Health authorities are working to control a "major outbreak" of the potentially deadly meningococcal B disease after the third case in three weeks in Far North Queensland. Queensland Health said a ...

MCC vaccination has had important consequences for meningococcal population biology, and carriage studies were essential in measuring these effects. The potential for herd immunity should be taken ...

Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be ...

Concern after the death of the 20-year-old student in Patras - The risk of contracting meningococcal disease is increased ...

The parents of a little girl who died from a preventable disease have welcomed its vaccine being made free for all Territorians: “we never had this opportunity”.

Professor Dugdale declined to specify the ages of the infected children. There are several different strains of meningococcal bacteria, but Queensland Health said the most common cause of the ...

According to Amy Phelps from the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department, the vaccine is intended to help prevent the spread of ...

The Finocchiaro CLP Government's free meningococcal B vaccination program is providing vital protection for infants, aged six weeks to two years, and ...