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A VACCINE campaign has been launched following a drop in the number of young people opting for protection against serious diseases like meningitis.

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JSS Hospital in Mysuru conducted an awareness rally to promote adult immunisation for high-risk individuals. Vaccines are being administered to public, inpatients, outpatients, geriatric population, medical and dental students, high-risk category patients, alcoholics, etc. at a concessional rate to prevent infections like pneumonia, chicken pox and meningitis.

New research finds that the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in Southeast Asia are only 50% effective at treating sepsis and meningitis in newborns. It's a cause for global concern.

A study found that many common antibiotics were less than 50% effective at treating serious bacterial infections in children and newborn babies in the Asia-Pacific.

A thunderclap headache can be a warning sign of a life-threatening condition including severely high blood pressure, bleeding in the brain or bacterial meningitis.

GBS can be fatal for babies but the NHS does not offer routine screening for mothers

For Ludovic Peze, November this year will serve as a solemn reminder of a time when the French-Mauritian’s life hung in the balance as it marks a decade since he contracted meningitis.

'I was given a less than 5 per cent chance of survival.'

Experts warned a failure to ensure children are fully protected could lead to a spread of contagious diseases.

Three Britons have contracted Brucella canis, a bacterial infection found in dogs that can cause meningitis in humans