Year 10 students in Victoria will have access to meningococcal vaccines from January 10 next year. The $9 million program will provide funding for the B strain of the disease, which is not covered ...

A 21-year-old college student from Perth died after he contracted an aggressive form of Meningococcal B. According to a report in The Advertiser, Alexander Philogene returned to Vienna, Austria, from ...

A deadly outbreak of meningococcal disease has swept through the student population of Canterbury, Kent, killing two young people and leaving health authorities grappling with what officials have ...

Causes of meningitis, what the public health response has been, and how the situation differs from Covid The deadly outbreak of meningitis in Kent has fuelled concerns about how far the disease will ...

Meningitis has featured prominently in the news this week, following a fatal outbreak of the disease in England. What has happened in Kent? There has been an “unprecedented” outbreak of invasive ...

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The Meghalaya government has issued a public health advisory and intensified surveillance, isolation, and preventive treatment measures. This comes after the death of two Agniveer trainees at an Army ...

Days after two Agniveer trainees died of suspected meningococcal bacterial infection at a training centre in Shillong, the Meghalaya government on Friday (February 27, 2026) issued an advisory urging ...

Contrary to existing evidence from observational studies, the meningococcal B vaccine (4CMenB) has no effect on preventing the acquisition of gonorrhea, according to the results of the world's largest ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Why aren’t meningococcal vaccines recommended for people over the age of 23? Are they assuming (wrongly) that most people have already received them or that most won’t (again, probably ...

Two people were diagnosed with meningococcal serogroup B disease in December last year, and another two were diagnosed in January this year, WA Health said on Tuesday. The cases are not believed to be ...

Two people have died from meningococcal disease in Chicago amid a recent spate of cases, public health officials confirmed. In a weekly update on Friday, the Chicago Department of Public Health said ...