The bacteria usually causes a meningitis - inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord - or a bloodstream ...

Two Tasmanian women have been hospitalized with invasive meningococcal disease, bringing the number of cases nationally so ...

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Monsoon season increases leptospirosis infections in India due to contaminated water. Early detection and proper precautions ...

I had 100 penicillin injections in my bottom, so the nurses said, and I was in isolation for two weeks. ... * Paul Henry reveals his daughter Bella had meningitis as a child .

His blood culture was positive for S. pneumoniae susceptible to penicillin and ceftriaxone. A diagnosis of pneumococcal meningitis was made, and the patient continued to receive ceftriaxone sodium ...

Federal health authorities are investigating the deaths of three people and a pregnancy loss in connection to listeria ...

South Carolina is grieving the sudden and tragic loss of 14‑year‑old William 'Will' Hand—an eighth-standard student and an ...

Background: Following the emergence of penicillin and cephalosporin resistant pneumococcal meningitis in the United States, inclusion of vancomycin in empiric therapy for all suspected bacterial ...

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

A five-year-old girl’s death from meningitis was ‘contributed to by neglect’, a jury has concluded. Lila Marsland was found unresponsive in bed by her mum on the morning of December 28, 2023 ...