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Drey Mingo, Purdue Women's Basketball Player, Hospitalized With Meningitis

Drey Mingo, a forward for the Purdue women's basketball team, was hospitalized Tuesday with a confirmed case of meningitis, prompting the team to pull out of a Thanksgiving tournament in Cancun. Mingo, a redshirt junior who is the team's second-leading scorer at 17.3 points per game and leads Purdue in rebounds and...

Opinion: Let's Lift the Roadblocks to Vaccinations

(Nov. 17) -- With the flu season just getting under way, it's a good time to ask this question: In an age of readily available vaccines, why are so many Americans dying of preventable diseases? About 200,000 will be hospitalized and 36,000 will die of the flu between now and when the flu season ends in May. In...

Fatal Meningitis Outbreak Linked to Hockey Game

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (June 23) -- Two hockey players have died and two other people are hospitalized from an outbreak of a particularly virulent strain of meningitis. Health officials said today they have traced the bacteria to a death in Denver in April. Officials are speculating that players at the end of a June 9...

Vaccine Deal Expected to Save Millions of Lives

(March 23) -- In a deal that could save millions of lives, two of the world's largest drug companies agreed today to provide 30 million doses of a vaccine that protects against pneumonia and meningitis to dozens of developing countries. Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline are the first to join a program spearheaded by the GAVI...

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Rare Bacteria May Have Caused Death Of VA Lab Researcher, Officials Say

Lab workers at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs medical center will be urged to get vaccinations for the diseases they study as a precaution as investigators continue looking into a researcher's death after he handled a rare strain of bacteria, officials said Thursday.

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06/02/12 UHV, Twin Fountains to provide low-cost meningitis... Source: Victoria Advocate - Victoria TX Bacterial meningitis is a potentially deadly disease that is an inflammation of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
06/02/12 Family hit by meningitis host Aberdeen fundraiser Source: Aberdeen News - Aberdeen - UK A FAMILY who have been affected by the tragic effects of meningitis are hosting an Aberdeen fundraiser.
06/02/12 Make Liam's party a roaring success Source: Hull and East Riding - Yorkshire - UK THE mother of a young boy who died of meningitis asking the north Hull community to help make a fundraising day a roaring success.
05/04/12 Rare Bacteria May Have Caused Death Of VA Lab... Source: AOL Healthy Living Lab workers at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs medical center will be urged to get vaccinations for the diseases they study as a precaution as investigators continue looking into a researcher's death after he handled a rare strain of bacteria, officials said Thursday.