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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

In July, Brittany Eddy, a Virginia teen, died of bacterial meningitis while traveling to Lynchburg for a high school volleyball camp. She reported feeling ill before the trip and her condition ...

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.

For those students who have never had a bacterial meningitis vaccination, a vaccination must be administered at least 10 days prior to the beginning of the term. Students who do not comply with this ...

By working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we led the advocacy ...