Meningococcal is an uncommon, life-threatening illness that is caused by a bacterial infection of the blood or membranes ...

WA Health has reported that an adult has been diagnosed with meningococcal serogroup B disease and is recovering in hospital.Meningococcal disease is ...

Mobile County Health Officer Dr. Kevin Michael said the meningococcal disease can cause meningitis or a severe blood infection. FULL STORY: ...

Certain types of behaviors, such as marijuana smoking, cigarette smoking, disco attendance, and intimate kissing likely increase the risk of meningococcal disease through some of the mechanisms ...

Infectious diseases that can cause meningitis and other serious conditions can spread easily in universities and colleges.

MenABCWY covers five of the six serogroups that cause most disease worldwide, with the B, C, and Y strains responsible for most cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) encountered in the US.

Mongolia is set to receive 2,000 doses of meningococcal vaccine next week, Health Minister Togtmol Munkhsaikhan announced.

The case is the first of the year in Mobile County. Meningococcal disease cases have been on the rise nationwide in recent years.

A three-year-old boy died of meningococcal meningitis disease in Ulan Bator the capital of Mongolia on Friday according to the country National Cen ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile County Health Officer Dr. Kevin Michael said the meningococcal disease can cause meningitis or a severe blood infection. “It can occur in two forms,” Dr.