The UK meningitis outbreak may worsen in coming weeks and months, with further contamination unrelated to the southeastern county of Kent where it first emerged. There is a risk that the epidemic will ...

One Wednesday this month, loud cries erupted from two teenage girls huddled over a cellphone in the parking lot of a local supermarket. They had just learned that a classmate at the private K-12 ...

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As quickly as it exploded earlier this year into the fastest-growing measles outbreak in decades, South Carolina’s infections are now dwindling toward what officials are hopeful is an end. Vigilance ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced the state's first measles outbreak of 2026 in Washtenaw County. Three cases of the virus have been reported since March 11, all linked to ...

Cruise ship virus outbreaks attract attention, in part because they are among the most closely monitored in the travel industry. This is what passengers should understand before setting sail. A string ...

Students at the University of Kent in the U.K. are calling for a shutdown in light of an active meningitis outbreak. The demands follow multiple alerts from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) about ...

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Two young people are dead and 20 are receiving treatment after a meningitis outbreak at the University of Kent. The students caught up in it belong to a generation that has never been routinely ...

The UK raised the alarm over a meningitis outbreak as health authorities advised antibiotics and started a targeted vaccination program for prevention. The country’s Health Security Agency warned of a ...

LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Britain will roll out meningitis vaccines to students at a university in southeast England after an "unprecedented" outbreak of the disease killed two people while the ...