The World Health Organization (WHO) has today published its first-ever global guidelines for meningitis diagnosis, treatment and care, aiming to speed up detection, ensure timely treatment, and ...

While cases first recorded in October have spread to 23 of Nigeria’s 36 states, nearly half of the deaths, 74, were reported ...

Bolgatanga, April 05, GNA – Professor Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has urged ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) urgently alerts the nation to a mounting cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) crisis, ...

ShareThe scene TKK has been residing in the northern part of the country all his life. He is a food crop farmer and usually look forward to the dry season for two reasons. Firstly, it signals the ...

Hallmark symptoms include headaches, vomiting, stiff neck, vision problems, weakness, and nerve damage. The gold standard test for diagnosing tuberculous meningitis is a spinal tap (lumbar puncture).

In meningitis there appears to be a semiquantitative relation to the leukocyte count of the spinal fluid. Table 1 lists the lactic dehydrogenase activity of spinal fluid in 181 patients in the ...

A girl of three died of meningitis after a doctor dismissed seven clear symptoms, it was claimed yesterday. Robert Leyland feared his daughter Morgan had the disease after his wife noticed she had ...

These are the classic triad of symptoms for meningitis, a disease which happens due to inflammation of the protective membranes (meninges) surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It can also cause ...

Meningitis is an inflammatory disorder that is caused by infection of the meninges the protective membranes that surround the central nervous system. Meningitis can be caused by bacterial or ...

“Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win”. --Max McKeown Dear Readers, There is an old adage that says literally... Every change in government ...

Meningitis often begins with symptoms easily mistaken for flu ... The inflammation of the meninges (the membranes around the brain and spinal cord) makes bending the neck forward particularly ...