An international non-governmental organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said that since early March, meningitis has been spreading rapidly throughout several ...

The study is published in The Lancet journal. In January 2024, the WHO recommended that all countries in the African meningitis belt introduce Men5CV into their routine immunization programs ...

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub ...

Nigerian authorities confirmed Tuesday that a meningitis outbreak in the northwest was behind the death of at least 26 people over several weeks. The spread of the disease in ...

Since the introduction of the MenA conjugate vaccine in the African meningitis belt through mass vaccination campaigns and its inclusion in the Essential Program on Immunization (EPI), cases of ...

Between 2022 and 2023, Nigeria, located in an area known as the African Meningitis Belt, recorded 2,765 suspected cases and 190 deaths, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities confirmed Tuesday that a meningitis outbreak in the northwest was behind the death of at least 26 people over several weeks. The spread of the disease ...