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Meningitis Shots for Teens

...he use of Sanofi-Pasteur's Menactra, also known as meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine or MCV4, which is now routi...been proven to protect against up to 83 percent of meningococcal cases among adolescents, according to the National Meningitis Association. There is another mening...

Improved Meningitis Vaccine for Africa Expected to End Deadly Scourge

...ted, a phenomenon know as herd immunity. The new meningococcal conjugate vaccine trial, in 12- to 23-month-olds i...ccine. This means that protection from serogroup A meningococcal meningitis is expected to last for several years. "This important study brings real hope that the ...

School Teen’s Sudden Death Linked To Bacterial Meningiti

... include a reddish-purple bruise-like rash. The meningococcal bacteria can be spread by direct contact with the saliva of an infected person, through kissing or the sharing of food, drinks, water bottles, cigarettes or mouthpieces of musical instruments. At the same time, health officials say there is no in...

FDA Approves First-of-its-Kind Drug to Treat Rare Blood Disorder

...bility to certain serious infections, particularly meningococcal infections that can cause bacterial meningitis, an...sue surrounding the spinal cord and brain. Serious meningococcal infection was the most important adverse reaction experienced by patients who received Soliris in cl...

Research Offers Hope to Control Meningococci

Bacterial meningitis is caused by meningococcal infection and the disease spreads like wild fire. In Africa 250,000 people were affected// in a matter of weeks in the late 1990s. Mortality rate in cases without treatment is 85-90 percent and with treatment 10-15 percent. Patients also run a high r...

More Research on Meningococcal Infection Called for

...atel, an epidemiologist calls for further study on meningococcal infection. He suggests that an analysis of historical patterns of meningococcal incidence would help// to better understand, and further prevent, the bacterial infection. "The m...

Meningococcal Disease in Sudan

...of Southern Sudan reported 1129 suspected cases of meningococcal disease including 96 deaths in 8 out of 10 states of Southern// Sudan. In a one week period from 4 to 11 February, a total of 79 suspected cases including 8 deaths were reported. However, delayed and irregular reporting as well as incomplete disagg...

Meningococcal Disease In Uganda

...th is planning to request 400950 doses of bivalent meningococcal vaccine (A/C) from the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision for Epidemic Meningitis Control, along with injection materials, oily chloramphenicol, transport media, and rapid-test kits. Source: Bio-Bio Technology SRI...

A 23- Year- Old Gay Falls Victim To Meningitis C in Toronto

... died of meningitis C in Toronto.Meningitis C is a meningococcal disease caused by bacterium Neisseria meningitidis.// It occurs rarely in Canada and is usually seen among teenagers and infants. This disease has a record of 10 to 15 per cent fatality and 20 per cent of the survivors suffer lasting health probl...

Vaccine For Meningococcal Disease Trialled In Western Australia

A vaccine which could protect children from meningococcal disease is being trialled by researchers in Perth...pe that the vaccine will be effective against the meningococcal B strain which is the most common. It is responsible for 80% of the affected cases in Western Austra...

Remarkable Progress In Development Of Vaccines

...shmen living in dormitories should receive the new meningococcal vaccine. Offit also explained about the other new vaccines that are being developed for treatment or prevention. 1. Rotavirus, which is a germ that causes severe diarrhoea in children, usually with fever and vomiting. Offit said, 'It's a very common...

Pertusis scare at a maternity hospital

.... Last Friday, a teenager, Jehan Nassif, died of meningococcal disease in Sydney. The victim’s boyfriend, George khouzame was told that she didn't need medication. Her death created a public outcry. ...

Meningococcal-B Vaccine Greatly Reduces The Risk of The Disease

... teenagers who had been immunised against epidemic meningococcal B disease are five times less likely to be infected// than those who haven't been vaccinated. Reports have shown that the biggest mass immunisation campaign that had taken place among the young New Zealanders has resulted in a five-fold reduction i...

iGATE Completes Phase I Testing Of Meningitis Vaccine

... that will include seven clinical trials. The new meningococcal A vaccine is manufactured by Serum Institute of India Limited (SIIL). IGATE CRI commenced monitoring Phase I trials in September 2004 in India and expects to initiate work on Phase II trials this year. The Phase I trial of the new vaccine was conduc...

Meningococcal Scare in Queensland

...sued a warning asking parents to be vigilant about meningococcal disease after a two-year-old boy died from it. The boy was taken to the Mareeba Hospital on Saturday with fever-like symptoms, but was sent to the Cairns Base Hospital.// However he died there in the emergency department. Queensland Health spokesman...

Haryana To Work With Pvt Practitioners To Implement WB Project

...ary, Health Urvashi Gulati said. Diseases such as meningococcal meningitis, dengues, viral hepatitis, japanese encephalitis, malaria, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, measles, polio, plague and HIV and factors such as water quality, outdoor air quality and risk of non-communicable diseases would be covered by IDSP...

Delhi Witnessed 34 Meningitis Deaths In Three Months

...ent 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. 'So far 34 people have died of symptoms similar to those of meningitis, of which 18 cases have been confirmed,' said N.K. Yadav, deputy municipal hea...

Possibility Of A Meningococcal Outbreak In NSW

...tral-western NSW, both suspected to have contacted meningococcal disease are being treated at the Dubbo Base Hospit...t with the infected individual is necessary before meningococcal infection can be passed on from one person to the other. The only effective way to manage meningoc...

Meningitis Back in Delhi and 21 Dead

The dreaded meningococcal meningitis has claimed 21 lives and 369 others are believed to have been affected by it in the national capital// during the past three months, top health officials said Saturday. Meningitis is an infection of the fluid in the spinal cord and the fl...

Lip Service : Indiscriminate Kissing Spells Doom

...partners were more likely, almost 3.7 times to get meningococcal disease. Children under 5 and adolescents also are...e identified a pattern of risk and protection from meningococcal disease in adolescence different from that seen in younger children. Intimate kissing with multiple ...

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