Chicago public health officials are warning about a rise in cases of meningococcal disease. Meningococcal disease is a rare, ...
Meningococcal disease is a rare, but serious bacterial ... three cases per year for the years of 2017 to 2022. In a health alert posted online, CDPH said the 15 Chicago cases from 2023-2024 ...
An Adelaide childcare centre has been alerted after a young girl contracted meningococcal. SA Health has identified ... vaccinated if they haven't already," said SA Health Communicable Disease Control ...
According to Meningitis Now, “Around 10 per cent of the population carry meningococcal bacteria (one of the most ... protects against the 13 strains that most commonly cause disease, and is offered to ...
There have been eight cases of invasive meningococcal disease reported in Chicago so far this year, the Chicago Department of ...
Nationally since 2023, cases of invasive meningococcal disease have disproportionately affected people between 30 and 60, and ...
There have been eight cases this year in Chicago compared to an average of one to three a year between 2017-2022.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago Department of Public Health has issued a new warning, following a local uptick in invasive bacterial meningococcal disease cases. So far, there have been eight cases ...
Dr. Olusimbo Ige, Commissioner for the Chicago Department of Public Health, joins Lisa Dent to talk about the rise in cases of meningococcal disease in the city, what symptoms to look for, and ...
While Chicago typically saw 1–3 cases annually from 2017-2022, the tally rose to seven in 2023 and eight so far in 2024, with four fatalities.
A Yale Medicine Infectious Disease Specialist and assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Scott Roberts, joined ...