About: meningitis

The Department of Health today reported that a young adult has died from meningococcal disease. 

Meningococcal disease is an uncommon, life-threatening illness caused by a bacterial infection of the blood and/or the membranes that line the spinal cord and brain, and occasionally of other sites, such as the throat, lungs...

Researchers have found a link between exposure to diesel exhaust particles (DEP) and the bacterial forms of pneumonia and meningitis, two of the leading causes of disease deaths in children and the elderly worldwide. 

Researchers at the University of Liverpool, Queens Mary University and Trinity College Dublin conducted a collaborative  Read more

The results of the B Part of It study – the largest meningococcal B herd immunity study ever conducted – are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The results have implications for all meningococcal B vaccine programs globally.

Led by Professor Helen Marshall from the University of...

The Department of Health has today reported the first case of invasive meningococcal disease in 2020.  

An adult is recovering after being diagnosed with meningococcal serogroup W disease.

Meningococcal disease is an uncommon, life-threatening illness caused by a bacterial infection of the blood and/or the membranes that...