Two people have died from meningitis in Kent, and another 18 people are confirmed to have the disease as part of an "unprecedented" outbreak which health officials say has now passed its peak. Three ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations have been updated for the meningococcal serogroup B MenB-4C vaccine (Bexsero), in accordance with the updated U.S. Food and Drug ...

The parents of a student who died from Meningitis B (MenB) say they fear another outbreak like Kent could happen without a wider rollout of the MenB vaccine. Helen and Lee Draper's 18-year-old ...

The UK has recently seen a resurgence of meningococcal B (MenB) disease, with a cluster of cases in Kent described as "unprecedented" by the health secretary, Wes Streeting. As attention turns from ...

Teens are vulnerable to meningococcal meningitis, an unpredictable disease that can strike without warning and lead to ...

BBC South has been looking at the key questions. Lewis Waters was a sixth-form pupil at The Henley College in Oxfordshire, ...

Meningococcal vaccines lower your risk of bacterial meningitis and other illnesses from Neisseria meningitidis bacteria. U.S. vaccines include MenACWY (A, C, W, Y), MenB (B), and MenABCWY (A, B, C, W, ...

Meningitis B, known as MenB, is the strain of bacteria behind the outbreak of meningitis cases in young people in Kent, experts have confirmed. It is rarer but far more serious than viral meningitis ...

Credit: Getty Images. ACIP recommends extending interval for two-dose series and adding three-dose series in accordance with FDA label The updated recommendations align with those of the other ...