In April 2009, U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer reached a financial agreement with a state government in Nigeria on lawsuits brought over an antibiotic that had been given to children during an outbreak of meningitis.
Authorities are investigating six possible cases of bacterial meningitis -- including two deaths -- in rural Oklahoma elementary school students.
Two children in Oklahoma have died from bacterial meningitis. Affiliate KTUL reports.
Mandy Young battled a mystery illness for 22 years before doctors discovered the cause of the illness.
"Your daughter is a walking time bomb." We have been told this more times than I like to remember. We have lived every day not knowing if the next breath she takes will be her last.
Doctors Without Borders has embarked on a massive vaccination campaign in three African countries to combat an outbreak of meningitis that has killed hundreds of people, the organization said Wednesday.
More than 200 people have died of meningitis in the past week alone in Niger and Nigeria, according to the World Health Organization.
A meningitis outbreak is threatening the lives of tens of thousands of people in Darfur, according to an aid agency expelled from the country last week.
An outbreak of meningococcal meningitis in India's remote northeastern state of Tripura has left 18 people dead in less than a week, health officials said Monday.
All 11- to 18-year-olds in the United States should be vaccinated against bacterial meningitis, a panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
Valencia's Argentina midfielder Pablo Aimar is suffering from a form of viral meningitis, the Primera Liga club said on Thursday.
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