Meningitis News

Stroud-based Meningitis Trust is celebrating today after winning a Outstanding in-house PR teama at last nighta s Chartered Institute of Public Relations PRide Awards for the West of England, with an appplicationtitled a Small Team, Big Achievementa .

Shoppers in Penryna s Asda will have the chance learn more about the deadly symptoms of meningitis after a trailer was placed at the supermarket.

An Oxford University student has died from bacterial meningitis. Dr Robert Ellis, principal of Regent's Park College, in Pusey Street, paid tribute to Antonia Bruch, a first year theology student.

Comedian and presenter Sandi Toksvig will share her own experience of meningitis to help a Bristol-based charity.

A TEENAGER who was left unable to walk after falling ill with meningitis has skydived 16,000ft to raise money for research into the disease.

THE Meningitis Research Foundation has this week launched its new student awareness posters to highlight the increased risk of meningitis among students, particularly during the winter months.

PARENTS have been warned to look out for symptoms of meningitis following the death of a 17-year-old boy who is suspected of having contracted the disease.

A hospital in Darlington was criticised by a coroner for failing to spot that a 10-year-old boy was gravely ill, later dying from meningitis.

Meningitis can be caused by viral, bacterial, or fungal infection or by brain trauma, cancer, or drugs.

Altnagelvin Hospital is running a campaign highlighting the fact that babies run a higher risk of meningitis and septicaemia than any other age group.

A Virginia Tech student came awfully close to death about 10 days ago. Doctors and nurses at two different hospitals recognized what he had as spinal meningitis .

Meningitis charities are today warning parents to be aware of the symptoms of the disease.

BRANDON - A confirmed case of bacterial meningitis reported at Brandon Valley High School earlier this week was reduced to probable Thursday morning by the South Dakota Department of Health.

Purdue University health officials announced Tuesday that an undergraduate student had been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.

A DETERMINED Bridgwater couple are helping save lives five years after the death of their baby son from meningitis.

Athens Mayor Dan Williams proclaimed Sept. 23 - Jessica Elkins' birthday - as Meningitis Awareness Day in the city.

A Vermilion County child has died, possibly as a result bacterial meningitis. Kyla Kinney, 2, from the Hoopeston area was taken to Hoopeston Community Memorial Hospital on Monday exhibiting signs and symptoms of the disease.

HEALTH bosses are urging parents to be wary of meningitis at the start of the new school term.

Parents are being urged not to mistake meningitis for swine flu as children head back to school.

FRIENDS and family of Mossley woman Carley Malin have helped her raise more than A 5,000 for Meningitis UK in memory of her son Zach.