By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the third ever Naegleria fowleri infection, and the second in 2020, in Costa Rica, the Ministry of Health reports the 4-year-old girl is “progressing...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice this week for the West African country of Benin due to a meningococcal disease outbreak. An...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Karachi, Pakistan reported 16 Naegleria fowleri infections/deaths (primary amoebic meningoencephalitis [PAM]) in 2019. In fact, more cases of N....

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Since the middle of December 2019, Benin health authorities starting reporting meningitis cases. The situation quickly turned into an outbreak with 77 cases, including...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Costa Rica Ministry of Health reported Tuesday (computer translated) on the second ever Naegleria fowleri, or “brain-eating amoeba” infection in their history. The...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The city of Stavanger in southwestern Norway has reported the death of an 18-year-old high school girl due to meningococcal meningitis. The girl, who was a student...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials with the Department of Health (DOH)-Davao are reporting the first confirmed case of meningococcemia this year in a four-year-old boy, who died at the Brokenshire...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Controlling deadly malaria without chemicals Scientists have finally found malaria’s Achilles’ heel, a neurotoxin that isn’t harmful to any living thing except...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 A ten-year-old child from Malappuram district in Kerala state in southwestern India has died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by infection with the parasite,...

Of the 36 states in Nigeria, 25 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are in the African meningitis belt. States in the meningitis belt were formally placed on alert on the 8th of November 2018...