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Glucose transporters blocked in bacterial meningitis

Escherichia coli K1 (E. coli K1) continues to be a major threat to the health of young infants. Affecting the central nervous system, it causes neonatal meningitis by multiplying in immune cells, such as macrophages...

4 August, 2016

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Babies to get life-saving meningitis vaccine as Britain first country in the world to offer the jab

The jab was recommended by health advisers a year ago and will soon be made available to children All babies in the UK will soon have a potentially life-saving vaccine against meningitis B, the Health Secretary has...

31 March, 2015

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UN extends use of meningitis vaccine to African infants

The World Health Organisation has approved giving a groundbreaking meningitis vaccine manufactured in India, which does not have to be stored in fridges or iceboxes, to babies across Africa, experts said. WHO’s...

12 January, 2015

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Doctors urge meningitis shots for vulnerable infants, children

Infants and children who are at risk of contracting meningitis because of specific health problems should be vaccinated against the infection, according to updated recommendations from the largest pediatrician group in...

1 August, 2014

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CDC importing meningitis vaccine to New Jersey

Federal health officials have agreed to import a meningitis vaccine approved in Europe and Australia but not the U.S. as officials at Princeton University consider measures to stop the spread of the disease on the Ivy...

19 November, 2013

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New meningitis vaccine slashes cases by 94 per cent

A new vaccine being rolled out in the “meningitis belt” that stretches across north-central Africa has reduced cases of the potentially fatal disease by 94 per cent, doctors reported in The Lancet. Researchers monitored...

30 September, 2013

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Vaccination appears to have halted a Meningitis outbreak

A bacterial meningitis outbreak among gay and bisexual men in New York City that had raised fears of a new AIDS-type epidemic has subsided after an aggressive vaccination campaign, leaving city health officials...

15 August, 2013

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Meningitis outbreak prompts change in vaccine recommendations

In 2012, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) calculated a troubling statistic: the rate of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in men who have sex with men (MSM) was about 50 times higher...

28 March, 2013

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100 millionth person receives lifesaving meningitis vaccine

A revolutionary meningitis vaccine will reach the 100 millionth person this week in a region of Africa that has been plagued by deadly epidemics for more than a century. The milestone will take place in northern...

4 December, 2012

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MOH will administer Meningitis ‘A’ vaccine in the three northern regions

The Ministry of Health, in its efforts to reduce the incidence of meningitis epidemic that regularly hits the northern sector of Ghana, has introduced a new vaccine “Meningitis A Conjugate Vaccine” (MenAfriVac) to...

21 September, 2012

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