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

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

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, ...

Meningitis can be a frightening diagnosis. Our expert guide breaks down the different types—bacterial, viral, and fungal—and what you need to know.

Children under five years of age, especially those aged two years or under, face a high risk of pneumococcal disease, which is caused by infection of a bacteria -- Streptococcus pneumoniae, also known ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

Most bacterial meningitis occur in strains covered by the widely-received and CDC-recommended vaccine, but the strain at UW-Madison isn’t prevented by the vaccine, said Kristen Ehresmann, Minnesota ...

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 ...