Five new cases of meningitis have been confirmed in Kent on Wednesday morning, March 18, taking the total number of suspected cases in what has been described as an unprecedented outbreak to 20. Nine ...
“It’s scary and important to think about,” Elizabeth Murray, DO, MBA, pediatric emergency medicine doctor, tells SheKnows. However, thanks to modern medicine, “it’s not an overly common medical ...
A GP has explained how people can receive vaccination against a particular form of meningitis linked to a deadly outbreak in Kent. The infection has led to two deaths in the Canterbury area, with at ...
Routine vaccination against IMD is essential to sustaining immunity during the years when young people are at greatest risk.
A college student has died and two people are being treated after cases of meningitis in Reading, Berkshire, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. It is entirely separate to the outbreak of ...
It comes after an outbreak in Kent earlier this year when two people died, and in Dorset last month where three young people also contracted the disease. BBC South has been looking at the key ...
Health officials in the United Kingdom are investigating a cluster of meningococcal infections, including two deaths. The situation has drawn renewed attention to meningococcal group B, or MenB, an ...