Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Meningitis kills 20 Nigerian school students

A meningitis outbreak in Nigeria has killed at least 20 boarding school students and infected hundreds more, the education commissioner in northeastern Yobe state said on Wednesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

WHO launches drive to fight bacterial meningitis in Africa

The World Health Organization on Thursday said it is launching a $1.5 billion campaign, hopefully including a new vaccine, to eliminate outbreaks of bacterial meningitis across Africa by 2030.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Nigeria meningitis deaths rise to 813

More than 800 people have died in a meningitis outbreak in Nigeria but the disease is now spreading more slowly, health minister Isaac Adewole said on Wednesday.

Medications

Use new meningitis vaccines only for outbreaks

(AP)—A U.S. panel on Thursday recommended that two new meningitis vaccines only be used for rare outbreaks, resisting tearful pleas to give it routinely to teens and college students.

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