Around a million Year 13 pupils and young people under 25 starting university this autumn will be eligible for the meningitis ...

One million students will be offered the meningitis B (MenB) vaccine this year after the fatal outbreak in Kent. Health ...

Alison Griffiths, who survived bacterial meningitis as a teenager, called for greater urgency on prevention measures An MP who survived bacterial meningitis as a teenager has urged the government to ...

BBC South has been looking at the key questions. Lewis Waters was a sixth-form pupil at The Henley College in Oxfordshire, and died last week. Two pupils, one from Reading Blue Coat School and another ...

While the MenB vaccine is good at protecting infants, it does not work as well in young people. And while it is called the ...

Health bosses said the recent Kent outbreak suggests a possible change to the way the "horrendous disease" affects people ...

A huge one-off vaccine programme will be rolled out to nearly a million young people to help protect them against meningitis ...

The decision for the one-off vaccine programme follows the unprecedented outbreak in Kent this year.

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is advising the public of an outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) following three lab confirmed cases within Central Newfoundland and Labrador.

This meningitis outbreak is deeply unusual and defies easy explanation. It has been described as unprecedented and explosive because there have been 20 cases since the weekend in one small area of ...