Vaccines can help you stay healthy. Learn how vaccines against bacteria and viruses can prevent serious illnesses like pneumonia, diphtheria, pertussis, and meningitis.

Bacterial meningitis causes swelling around the brain and spinal cord. ... The current vaccine schedule recommends 11 to 12-year-olds should get a MenACWY vaccine, ...

To help families get ready for the upcoming school year, FCPH will host four back-to-school immunization clinics throughout ...

On Wednesday at a lunch and learn hosted by the Victoria Police Department, Kenneth Roca, a Resident doctor at DeTar Hospital in Family Medicine, educated attendees about meningitis.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration approved a new vaccine to protect people age 11 to 55 against bacterial meningitis, which is rare but potentially deadly and debilitating.

Two Upstate students have died following complications with bacterial meningitis and meningococcemia. One of the students was ...

If you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms such as fever, neck stiffness, or confusion, it is important to seek medical intervention at once. These are the classic triad of symptoms for ...

Officials say there's been a jump in bacterial meningitis cases 01:41. ... "Getting your child up to date on their vaccines by age 11 to 12 for the first dose, age 16 for the booster dose.

Bacterial meningitis is the most serious, can also result in septicaemia (blood poisoning), and can seriously disable or kill within 24 hours those that contract it.

Gail Bailey stands at the tombstone for her son, Eddy, who died of bacterial meningitis in 2002. (Erik Gunn | Wisconsin Examiner) It has been nearly 22 years since Edward “Eddy” Bailey — a ...

Texas Education Code section 51.9192 states that all students attending an institution of higher education are required to provide proof of a current bacterial meningitis vaccination. Students meeting ...