By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Swedish Public Health Agency, or Folkhälsomyndigheten is recommending vaccination against influenza and pneumococci, and due to the current pandemic, vaccination is extra...

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health is reporting an pneumococcal disease outbreak in people working the shipyards in Vestnes municipality. Since January this year, nine people working in the shipbuilding...

Merck announced this week that V114, the company’s investigational 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, has received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Pneumonia-causing bacteria can be spread through picking and rubbing the nose, according to new research published in the European Respiratory Journal. Pneumococcus, the bacteria that can cause pneumonia,...

Vaccinations have significantly decreased the number of diseases caused by pneumococcus among young children. This is mainly due to the decreased number of middle-ear infections among children. However,...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have identified an enzyme that acts early in pneumococcal infections to promote bacterial survival and invasive disease by removing the bacteria’s capsule....

In less than two weeks, the pneumococcal meningitis outbreak that initially struck the West Gonga District of northern Ghana  has not only seen an increase in cases and deaths, but has also spread to...

The death toll has reached nine due to pneumococcal meningitis in the Tain District of the Brong Ahafo Region in South Ghana, according to a Citi 97.3 fm report. The outbreak of the bacterial infection...