The Latest Breaking News from Meningitis

A dip in vaccine coverage means more children are not protected against potentially deadly disease.

Bella Fidler, from Australia's Gold Coast, returned from a celebratory trip to Bali in Indonesia complaining of "flu-like symptoms" and told her parents she "didn't feel right" - later discovering that she had bacterial meningitis

Tick borne encephalitis, which can cause meningitis, has recently had its first confirmed case in England, the UK Health Security Agency warned, as the virus was detected in a number of other areas too

A 17-year-old will receive a $7 million settlement from the Canberra Hospital as part of a medical negligence case over his diagnosis and treatment for pneumococcal meningitis and septicaemia when he was just three months old.

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The charity Meningitis Now has urged people to be aware of the warning signs.

Leading charity Meningitis Now has warned people not to be complacent after meningitis cases doubled in a year. There is also increasing concern bout the number of fatal cases of meningitis occurring in adults over the past three months.

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGE An 11-year-old Jordanian boy has passed away after contracting meningitis from a dog bite in the city's capital Amman