Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be expected.

Health officials are alerting doctors to be on the lookout for certain types of rare but serious meningococcal infections that are on the rise in the United States.

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LONDON — A new meningitis vaccine promises to end devastating epidemics that have plagued West Africa the last century, according to recent studies.

Carilion has admitted only patients with a spinal tap that tests positive for meningitis, meaning the cerebral spinal fluid has an elevated white blood cell count.

Like freshers’ flu, meningitis is initially difficult to distinguish from a bad hangover or common, milder illnesses. This can also be the case with the early stages of measles or mumps.

Spanish soccer star Aitana Bonmatí has been hospitalized with viral meningitis just days before the start of the Women’s Euros on Wednesday, her manager Montse Tomé said.