A fourth-grade student at Burns Science and Technology School died last week of meningitis, according to television news reports. The disease affects thousands of Americans every year, with certain ...

The outbreak linked to tainted steroids has sickened 424 people in 19 states. Nov. 7, 2012— -- Another person has died from fungal meningitis in an outbreak linked to tainted steroid injections, ...

When it comes to bacterial infections, bacterial meningitis may not be the most common one, but it is certainly among the most serious. "The most worrisome part of bacterial meningitis is the ...

Meningitis causes inflammation of the tissues surrounding the brain and spinal cord. The World Health Organization (WHO) says ...