Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be expected.

FDA investigators said on Oct. 5, they had observed fungal contamination by direct ... received the injections have had strokes related to meningitis. In several patients, the meningitis was ...

Fungal meningitis, unlike viral and bacterial meningitis, is not contagious. One of the dead in Tennessee, 80-year-old Reba Temple, was a former health director for rural Hickman County.

A woman from Savage has filed a class-action lawsuit against New England Compounding Center, the company responsible for producing a batch of contaminated steroids linked to more than 200 cases of ...

Cryptococcal meningitis is a severe fungal infection primarily caused by the organism Cryptococcus neoformans. This infection is particularly prevalent among individuals with weakened immune ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- For the roughly 150,000 patients with AIDS who come down with a life-threatening infection called fungal meningitis each year, there aren’t many options. In many parts of the world ...

Patients receiving care in Litchfield are safe from the possibility of contracting meningitis from drugs produced at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy that has been tied to a fungal meningitis ...

As of Wednesday, 247 cases of fungal meningitis and 19 deaths have been linked to the company’s steroids nationally; Minnesota alone has seven confirmed cases and no deaths. But nearly 1,000 ...

He says there are several types of meningitis that include bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic and ones caused by non-infectious factors. Viral meningitis is the more common and less serious form ...

When it comes to bacterial infections, bacterial meningitis may not be the most common one, but it is certainly among the most serious. "The most worrisome part of bacterial meningitis is the ...