A circulating viral inhibitor resembling interferon was found in 2 children during the acute phase of meningitis due to Haemophilus influenzae. It is postulated that this phenomenon is analogous ...

Vaccinations are also available to prevent some types of bacterial meningitis. The haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) ...

Vaccines can protect against the most common types of meningitis-causing bacteria, such as Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Neisseria meningitidis. Yet ...

Hib was the leading cause of meningitis in children under 5 years of age. Meningitis is a serious infection of the lining covering the brain and spinal cord and has a mortality rate of 2-5%.

pestis. He probably contracted the Hib infection first, Guellil and colleagues say. While respiratory infections rarely leave marks, the boy’s kneecaps had fused to the thighbones above them.

The Penta vaccine, on the other hand, protects against the Haemophilus influenzae B bacterium, which also causes bacterial meningitis, besides preventing diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis ...

Meningitis is an infection of the meninges ... All children are still offered a Hib/Men C vaccination at age 1 and the Men ACWY vaccination is offered to teenagers. In recent years a deadly ...

Bacterial meningitis, often fatal if untreated, leads to inflammation around the brain and may cause severe complications like hearing loss, paralysis, or death. It spreads through close contact ...

Nearly 50 people have been taken ill with a type of meningitis, after they ate undercooked Amazonian snails in Chinese restaurants. Nearly 50 people have been taken ill with a type of meningitis ...

A senior government official of Delhi said that the killer disease meningococcal meningitis has so far claimed 34 lives in just three months, leaving another 486 affected by it A senior government ...

Meningococcal bacteria is a serious and potentially deadly infection that can cause meningitis (PA) The UK is close to eradicating a potentially fatal bacterial disease that can cause meningitis ...