The Ghana Health Service has intensified processes to identify more cases of pneumococcal meningitis at Kumasi Academy and its environs after it discovered 26 cases of the disease at the school....
The outcome of the post-mortem examination carried out on students of Kumasi Academy Senior High School who lost their lives last week has been made public following the public interest the deaths...
The Director General of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Nsiah Asare has warned Ghanaians to be cautious and vigilant because the country is in a meningitis season. So far, over 50 people have died over...
Nigeria has started a mass vaccination programme in a bid to stop an outbreak of meningitis. More than 300 people have died of the disease since late last year. Medical officials are focusing efforts...
Some students of Kumasi Academy say they are taking the official cause of death of four of their mates with a pinch of salt. According to them, there is no truth in the autopsy report which cites...
Some students of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (SHS) have rejected the post-mortem examination which concluded that four of their colleagues who have lost their lives within the last few...
The Ashanti regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has revealed that the four students who died at the Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti region died from meningitis and not food poisoning. The four...
It has been revealed that the four deaths, recently recorded at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School in Ashanti were due to meningitis. In all, a total of 26 cases of meningitis have since been...
The cause of the “mysterious” deaths of four students at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region has been found to be Meningitis. This was revealed after...
It has been revealed that the deaths, recently recorded at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School in Ashanti were due to meningitis. In all, a total of 26 cases of meningitis have since been reported...
Health workers in Nigeria on Wednesday began a mass vaccination programme to try to halt a mass outbreak of meningitis that has killed nearly 340 people since late last year. The Nigeria Centre for...
Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does not have enough vaccine doses to deal with a deadly meningitis outbreak because they are...
Nigeria is facing a major shortfall in vaccines to contain an outbreak of meningitis that has claimed 282 lives since November last year, senior health officials said on Thursday. The head of the...
Nearly 270 people, most of them children, have died in the past five months during the latest meningitis outbreak to hit Nigeria, public health officials said Wednesday. "Presently we have 1,828...
An outbreak of meningitis in several states of Nigeria has killed at least 140 people, officials say. It has been reported over the last week in six states and has so far infected more than 1,000...
More than 1,000 people have been infected. At least 140 people have been killed by meningitis outbreak in six states in Nigeria, including the federal capital, Abuja. More than 80 of the deaths...
The Upper East Regional Director of Health services Dr. Kofi Issah has adviced the Ghanaians particularly those in the region to take enough fluids and avoid overcrowding to prevent being infected...
Two students have been confirmed dead with eleven others on admission at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital from cerebrospinal meningitis in the Upper East region. Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) is an...
Eleven others who have also been infected with CSM are in hospital for treatment At least two Senior High School students have been confirmed dead after they were infected with Cerebrospinal...
For the same reasons you wouldn’t share a fork with a stranger or, say, lick an ATM, inserting your tongue into someone else’s mouth can set your body up for disaster. Here’s how: 1. IT CAN...
