A recent study from Temple University finds a majority of Pennsylvania college students consider themselves educated about ...

So the meningitis vaccine which protects against very serious illness, meningococcal meningitis is invasive disease and every year children and teenagers get seriously ill and even die from ...

Effective vaccines are available against the ACWY groups (MenACWY), alongside ... Sohn says that few countries offer both meningitis vaccines in their national immunization programmes; many ...

BECCA Heritage had been enjoying her first weeks at University when she started vomiting “relentlessly”. “After hours of it ...

We also have information on infections that are currently a concern such as measles and scabies. You should ideally get your Meningitis ACWY vaccination at least 2 weeks before starting at university ...

The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has recently announced that the Meningitis Vaccine is mandatory for individuals visiting the country for Umrah, Hajj, or ...

Saudi Arabia has suspended the meningococcal vaccine requirement for Umrah pilgrims, allowing travelers to perform Umrah with ...

Individuals who received a meningitis B vaccine were less likely to have contracted the sexually transmitted infection than their unvaccinated counterparts. In the mid-2000s, researchers in New ...

the Penta vaccine, which prevents meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae B bacteria, as well as four other diseases; and the meningococcal ACWY vaccine, which protects against meningococcal ...

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

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 ...