Researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa is safe and effective for use in ...

Medically reviewed by Nicholas R. Metrus, MD Meningococcal disease is an infection caused by a type of bacteria called ...

These bacteria are capable of causing meningococcal meningitis, a condition that causes inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.Meningococcal disease isn’t very common in the United States. A study ...

The parents of a "miracle boy" who died suddenly from a rare form of meningitis have said they are working to raise awareness of the disease. Four-year-old Jaxon Knowles died in Rotherham Hospital on ...

The vaccine targets five major serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis (A, B, C, W, and Y), which commonly cause invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). The vaccine combines the antigenic components of ...

Penmenvy combines parts of the well-established Bexsero and Menveo vaccines into a single shot, protecting against the five most common strains of Neisseria meningitidis (A, B, C, W, and Y).

At least 26 people have been killed in an outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) across four local government areas ...

The shot protects against common disease-causing serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis (A, B, C, W and Y), covering five of the six serogroups that cause most disease worldwide, with the B ...

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found ...