Public Health said it investigated a case in a student last week at Cole Harbour High School. Close contacts were notified ...

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. Michaels said. “Meningococcal ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...