Sentences with word «meningococcal»

Massey Peter, Durrheim David (2008) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples at higher risk of invasive meningococcal disease in NSW.

Other areas discussed included the introduction of a 3 year ACWY meningococcal vaccine program, a continued commitment to culturally appropriate and innovative Aboriginal health programs, and the extension of fluoridation of water supplies.

This will further the understanding of meningococcal disease across Australia.

In September of the same year, he moved to Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostic in Siena (Italy), where he devoted his work on structural characterization of protein - based constructs for the development of a polyvalent vaccine against meningococcal meningitis.

During the period under study, there were 2628 notifications of invasive meningococcal disease in NSW residents.

The risk of being notified with meningococcal disease in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population was calculated and then compared with the risk for the non-Aboriginal population (relative risk).

Proof of current immunization against meningococcal meningitis, tetanus, rabies, and measles, mumps and rubella may be required.

All 11 - to -12-year-olds should be vaccinated with a single dose of a quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine, which protects against infections such as meningitis.

The participants then listened to a radio show clip that supposedly featured an expert from the CDC talking about meningococcal disease.

Four of the deaths were attributed to Pneumococcal meningitis while the other two deaths resulted from Meningococcal meningitis.

He is also director of a new consortium (MenAfriCar), which is studying the epidemiology of meningococcal infection in Africa prior to the introduction of a new conjugate vaccine.

Meningitis B (also known as Meningococcal group B or MenB) is one of the deadliest strains of meningitis.

Anita Jewitt Qualified: 2008 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Recovered # 8.5 m for a child with quadriplegic cerebral palsy following the hospital's delay in expediting his delivery; recovered # 7.4 m for a child who sustained bilateral upper and lower limb amputations as a result of the delayed diagnosis of meningococcal septicaemia; recovered # 6m for a child who suffered from cerebral palsy as a result of the hospital's failure to carry out an earlier caesarean section.

There isn't much information about the risks of injecting women with Meningococcal shots during pregnancy, nor have studies been done on women who receive the doses while nursing a new baby.

According to a memo they submitted with the legislation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that roughly 1,000 to 1,200 people contract meningococcal disease every year in the United States, and between 10 and 15 percent of these cases are fatal.

Epidemics of meningococcal A meningitis, which is a bacterial infection of the thin lining surrounding the brain and spinal cord, have swept across 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for a century, killing and disabling young people every year.

It adds meningococcal disease, which can lead to a form of meningitis, to those against which students must be vaccinated.

A recent out of court settlement, where a delay in diagnosing meningococcal septicaemia led to the death of a four - year - old boy, highlights significant patient safety issues says Moore Blatch.

Your teenager should have received a meningitis vaccine to cover meningococcal meningitis going into 6th grade (ages 11 and 12).

The aims of the study were to assess the completeness of data describing Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander status in NSW invasive meningococcal disease data contained within the NSW Notifiable Diseases Database; and to describe the relative risk for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples being notified with IMD in NSW compared with the non-Aboriginal population.

The participants learned about specific symptoms, risk factors, diagnostic tools, and aftereffects associated with meningococcal disease and then read a message about the disease.

These messages differentially affected how anxious participants felt about meningococcal disease.

This case arose from the Defendant GP failing to suspect that the claimant was suffering from Meningococcal Meningitis, resulting in a substantial award of damages.

This could be a symptom of meningococcal infection that can cause life - long disabilities or even death.

«Consistent with other vaccines against meningococcal disease, a waning of hSBA titres was observed after infant vaccination with 4CMenB.

The next morning Danny was found by his mother, lying unconscious and covered in a rash — he was immediately taken to hospital, but sadly died later that day of meningococcal septicaemia.

The hospital last week recorded its first five suspected cases with one confirmed case of meningococcal meningitis.

Since May 2017 there has been an increase in the number of confirmed cases of meningococcal C disease in Victoria, mostly in men who have sex with men...

NSW meningococcal disease notification data since the promulgation of the Public Health Act in 1991 were sourced from HOIST (Health Outcomes Information and Statistical Toolkit, NSW Health).

If you have been seeing your pediatrician or family doctor for a yearly checkup and have been getting vaccinated according to the recommended CDC immunization schedule, there is a good chance that your teen will only need a yearly flu vaccine and one other vaccine before heading off to college — a meningococcal booster.

The CDC also recommends kids get a meningococcal vaccine at the 11 or 12.

For babies and teens there is the meningococcal vaccine.

In Canada, vaccines prevent illnesses such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), rotavirus, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, pneumococcal and meningococcal diseases, and human papillomavirus virus (HPV).

Babies at high risk of developing a meningococcal disease, which can lead to bacterial meningitis and other serious conditions, may receive an additional vaccine.

(Otherwise, kids usually get the meningococcal vaccine at 11 — 12 years old.)

In particular, you should talk to your child's pediatrician about the meningococcal vaccine, which specifically prevents one type of bacterial meningitis.

If your child is at high risk for developing meningococcal disease, a serious infection that can lead to bacterial meningitis, your doctor may offer the meningococcal vaccine as well.

Learn why experts recommend that kids get the meningococcal vaccine at age 11 or 12 and a booster at age 16 to prevent bacteria...

Six people have been confirmed to have died of Pneumococcal and Meningococcal meningitis in the Ashanti region.

The Acting Deputy Director of Public health for the Greater Accra region, Dr. John Yabina speaking to Citi News said «we had five cases and one tested positive to meningococcal meningitis and then the other four we heard on Monday morning that they were all negative to the disease.»

According to him, in 2016, the continent marked significant achievement in interrupting the near elimination of Meningococcal Meningitis A epidemic and the significant reduction in disease burden and child mortality due to Measles.