June 19, 2013

Meningitis outbreak: Lawyers seek records of everyone treated with NECC drugs

Subpoenas are expected to be issued this week in an attempt to identify hundreds of possible additional victims in Tennessee and across the country of illnesses caused by tainted drugs produced by a now-defunct Massachusetts compounding company.

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Meningitis case at Yellowknife school

The N.W.T. Department of Health and Social Services has confirmed there was a case of meningitis at N.J. Macpherson school this week.

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Student deadline for meningitis shot nears

Student deadline for meningitis shot nears HOUSTON CHRONICLE Copyright 2012 HOUSTON CHRONICLE. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Local School Nurses Unite Community to Combat Low Meningitis Vaccination Rates Among Preteens and Teens in San Diego

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Low rates of meningococcal vaccination among adolescents in California has triggered The San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) to join forces with the California School Nurses Organization (CSNO) to declare this week San Diego…

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Meningitis suspected in Surrey student’s sudden death

A health warning has been issued after a 15-year-old boy at Surrey’s Clayton Heights Secondary died this week of an apparent bacterial meningiccocal infection.

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Akonni, Wadsworth Center Developing PCR Arrays for Viral Encephalitis, Meningitis

Akonni Biosystems and Albany, NY-based Wadsworth Center are working together under a $300,000 National Institutes of Health grant to develop a closed amplicon PCR microarray to detect encephalitis- and meningitis-causing viruses in cerebral spinal fluid, Akonni said this week.

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