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CDC Reports Rise in Invasive Serogroup Y Meningococcal Disease
FRIDAY, March 29, 2024 – There has been a rise in invasive meningococcal disease, mainly attributable to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y, according to an alert issued by the U.S. Centers for...
CDC Warns of Spike in Bacterial Illness That Can Cause Meningitis
FRIDAY, March 29, 2024 – There has been a troubling rise in cases of a rare bacterial illness that can cause meningitis, U.S. health officials warned Thursday. In an alert issued to doctors, the...
Co-founder of Company Behind Deadly 2012 Meningitis Outbreak Gets Up to 15 Years in Prison
WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 – Barry Cadden, co-founder of a specialty compounding pharmacy behind a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012, has been handed a prison sentence of 10 to 15 years in Michigan...
Long-Term Disability Risk Seen After Childhood Bacterial Meningitis
FRIDAY, Jan. 26, 2024 – Childhood bacterial meningitis significantly increases the risk for having at least one of seven long-term disabilities, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in JAMA ...
Bacterial Meningitis in Childhood Can Devastate the Lives of Survivors
MONDAY, Jan. 22, 2024 – Infection in childhood with bacterial meningitis leaves one-third of survivors with long-term neurological damage, often severe, a new study shows. The disease is rare and...
Meningitis Cases Rising Among Gay Men With HIV
WEDNESDAY, June 28, 2023 – Meningococcal disease – which includes meningitis – appears to be on the rise among Americans infected with HIV, new research reveals. Researchers stress that the risk...
Meningitis Threat at Mexican Surgical Clinics
THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 – U.S. health officials are urgently trying to reach people who have recently had medical procedures at clinics in Matamoros, Mexico, because they may be at risk of...
CDC Raises Alarm About Meningitis Threat to Patients Visiting Mexican Surgical Clinics
THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 – U.S. health officials are urgently trying to reach people who've recently had medical procedures at clinics in Matamoros, Mexico, because they may be at risk of potentially...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
[UPDATE 10/24/2012] The updated list of customers (consignees) who were shipped product on or after May 21, 2012 from the New England Compounding Center’s (NECC) Framingham, MA facility is now pos...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
FDA provides NECC Customer List [UPDATE 10/22/2012] FDA is making available two lists of customers (consignees) who received products that were shipped on or after May 21, 2012 from New England ...
FDA Medwatch Alert: FDA Statement on Fungal Meningitis Outbreak: Additional Patient Notification Advised
[Update 10/16/2012] On 10/15/12 the health care facility notified CDC that the initial report of two transplant patients has been revised to one patient who received cardioplegia solution from NECC....
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