Health chiefs say it is vital uptake is at least 95 per cent to prevent outbreaks of the highly infectious conditions, which ...

In a tragic incident a five-year-old girl lost her life after being misdiagnosed with tonsillitis later confirmed to be ...

The Government has announced a 'significant' shake-up to the childhood vaccination schedule this year. Here's what parents ...

Despite its 247 pages and more than 400 references, Vaccine Nation is anything but dry. MacIntyre is a natural storyteller. She opens with a haunting scene from 1953: a five-year-old girl named Martha ...

An 8-year-old boy Liam Dahlberg in Indiana has died from Haemophilus influenzae type b Hib infection highlighting the dangers of skipping vaccines ... It can cause diseases like meningitis ...

As the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylanvia (CHOP) explains, before the Hib vaccine was introduced in 1985, about 20,000 children in the United States would develop serious, sometimes fatal ...

An Indiana child dies of Hib (Haemophilus influenzae) ... Liam Dahlberg, 8, died after he contracted H flu, which developed into a meningitis infection, family said.

An Indiana child dies of Hib (Haemophilus influenzae) ... Liam Dahlberg, 8, died after he contracted H flu, which developed into a meningitis infection, family said.

The common bacteria causing meningitis are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, and many others. It’s noteworthy that the bacterium causing tuberculosis can ...

Here's why there are such a wide variety of symptoms associated with meningitis and why not every form of meningitis is contagious. ... These include the Hib, MenB, ...