Africa meningitis deaths near 1500 for first nine months of 2013
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa recently released its updated Meningitis Weekly Bulletin, which shows the number of cases and fatalities from meningitis in 19 countries from the “African More...
Africa: 9,200 meningitis cases reported in ‘meningitis belt’ during first five months, lowest number reported in past decade
According to a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alert and Response today, for the first five months of 2013, 9,249 suspected cases of meningitis, including 857 deaths, have been reported from 18 of the 19 More...
UN agency announces meningitis vaccination campaign in South Sudan
Responding to a meningococcal meningitis outbreak in South Sudan’s Upper Nile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced they will carry out a vaccination campaign where the dangerous bacterial infection More...
Guinea meningitis outbreak kills 40
Health officials have reported that at least 40 people have died as a result of a meningitis outbreak in the West African country of Guinea, multiple media outlets report. According to the report, a physician in More...
