The Department of Health today reported that an elderly adult is recovering in hospital after being diagnosed with meningococcal W 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...
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Public meningococcal clinics will be held in the state’s North and North-West next month, with specific details to be released soon.
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“Eligible Tasmanians can receive their free...
Second Meningococcal B case in Tasmania in a week.
A 15-YEAR-OLD Launceston boy is in a stable condition after becoming the ninth Tasmanian to be diagnosed with meningococcal this year.
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It is the third case of the B strain this year and the first in the state’s North.
In a statement issued late on Thursday, Public Health Services clinical director of communicable diseases Faline...
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