Vaccine shortage study exposes nations 'patchwork' system
...going national shortage of a vaccine that prevents meningitis and pneumonia in children has left doctors scrambling to provide even the minimum number of shots, and has exposed gaps in the nation's "patchwork" vaccine system, the first-ever in-depth study of the problem finds. Three-quarters of 405 doctors' off...UT Southwestern, Children's Medical Center to test new rapid diagnostic equipment
...d brought to the emergency room tests positive for meningitis or whooping cough, new rapid diagnostic testing equipment will provide doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Children's Medical Center of Dallas with an answer in a few hours. A one-year, $435,000 grant from the Centers for Disease ...International experts take aim at global reduction of Hib disease
...es each year. It is a common bacterium that causes meningitis and was the leading cause of acquired mental retar...ne, Hib disease was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis among U.S. children under the age of 5, which can cause brain injury and deafness. Other clinical ma...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet, Aug. 6, 2002
...st at risk for developing severe symptoms, such as meningitis and encephalitis, and for dying. Vaccines are being developed, but at this time, two strategies seem best to prevent exposure to the virus: public mosquito control programs to reduce the mosquito population; and individual tactics such as using mosqu...Meningitis C vaccine is cost effective
...rapidly and substantially reduced the incidence of meningitis in young people and is cost effective, finds a stu...ore the introduction of the vaccine, the burden of meningitis C was considerable, with an estimated 1,137 cases in people aged 0-17 years and at least 72 deaths a...Rare form of meningitis contracted in Jamaica
A rare form of meningitis usually restricted to Southeast Asia and the Pacif...als who ate in a restaurant in Jamaica contracted meningitis as a result of eating a Caesar salad contaminated with the larvae of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, ot...Meningitis in infancy linked to developmental problems
...Volume 323, pp 533-6Editorial: Legacy of bacterial meningitis in infancy BMJ Volume 323, pp 523-4 Children who get meningitis in their first year of life have a 10-fold increased risk of severe or moderate disability at 5 year...Taking public health to the streets works
... raise awareness of a contagious form of bacterial meningitis known as meningococcal disease--an infection of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. "Feedback from individuals, families, and groups contacted through the awareness program was overwhelmingly positive about the house-to-house visiting ...Most acquisition of meningitis bacteria among students occurs in first week of university term
...ional study Most acquisition of the bacteria for meningitis occurs during the first week of the university ter...dicine, showed that the carriage rate of bacterial meningitis strains had quadrupled within the first four days of the autumn term. Students living in catered hal...Southeast appears to have a unique type of Lyme disease
...condary problems including arthritis, nerve palsy, meningitis and heart arrhythmias. Researchers found no evidence that the disease progressed to the second stage in any of the study patients, leading them to believe that the Lyme disease organism in the Southeast may be a less virulent strain and/or more resp......hroat without getting sick. Even so, meningococcal meningitis appears to be an opportunistic disease, infecting ...the cases," Dr. Arditi says. Tell-tale symptoms of meningitis include high fever and severe, sudden headache. These often are accompanied by such complaints as st...No need to treat "simple" febrile seizures in young children
...ons are not intended to apply to children who have meningitis orencephalitis at the time of the seizure. "Seizures are frightening events, especially for parents who see theirtoddler have a generalized seizure with jerking of the limbs and foaming fromthe mouth," Baumann said. "Parents have a natural t...... Britain announced that trials of a new children's meningitis vaccine had beendelayed for up to a year because only half the 2000 volunteers needed had beenrecruited. In particular, they lacked recruits aged three to four. But in the US, drugs companies will soon have an incentive to overcomethese diffi...