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Stories about: meningitis

How Meningitis Passes the Blood-Brain Barrier After centuries in which meningitis was free to wreak havoc among small children and the elderly, researchers from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have finally managed to discover how the bacteria causing the disease move fr... 19 August 2009 03:58 GMT Doctors Warned to Keep an Eye Out for Meningitis The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cautioned doctors yesterday, November 20th, to pay extra attention to children over the coming months, as supplies of the critical booster doses for the vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) bacterium are very low. Eradicated in the United States, the... 21 November 2008 08:26 GMT Pakistani Vaccine Averts Childhood Diseases A new health Pakistani initiative could provide several thousand infants with a chance to survive each year. Currently, 10 percent of all children aged under 5 die in the country, due to diseases that can be controlled through vaccination. The Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) bacterium is one of the most dangerous... 3 November 2008 07:28 GMT