Sentences with phrase «meningococcal meningitis»

In addition to maintaining the level of protection against meningitis A, public health experts at the MVP Closure Conference are also planning on tackling other disease - causing strains of meningococcal meningitis such as serogroups W, X, and C, which also cause epidemic outbreaks in the meningitis belt countries.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

We have seen new outbreaks of swine flu, regular flu, hantavirus, Ebola, HIV / AIDS, herpes, HPV, meningococcal meningitis, SARS, West Nile virus, and MRSA — one of the notorious «flesh - eating bacteria.»

48 - year - old Julie Coakley became unwell in January 2008 and visited her GP with the symptoms of meningococcal meningitis, which included a severe headache and rash on various parts of her body.

California About Blog Meningitis Awareness Key 2 prevention was founded after my daughter, MaryJo, died of meningococcal meningitis.