In September 2024, 19-year-old Ketia Moponda, a marketing and advertising student, was eight days into her freshman year at ...

Lily McGarry, 23, contracted meningitis, which quickly spiraled into a severe infection that caused two cardiac arrests and ...

Ambulance workers’ neglect contributed to the death of a teenager with meningitis, a coroner has found. Zara Cheesman, from ...

A young Co Down man has has told how he feared he was hearing his mother’s final words as he fought life-threatening sepsis.

Local officials commemorated the life of a former Athens student while emphasizing health awareness on Tuesday, proclaiming ...

An ambulance service's care of a 15-year-old girl who died of bacterial meningitis amounted to neglect, a coroner has ruled.

Athens Mayor Ronnie Marks and Limestone County Commission Chairman Collin Daly officially designated today as Meningitis ...

The teenager showed might have survived but for the "neglect" of EMAS technicians who were guilty of "gross failings to ...

A teenage girl who had bacterial meningitis could have been saved if it weren’t for ‘neglectful’ ambulance staff, a coroner ...

Zara Cheesman, 15, died of meningitis in December last year after being discharged from A&E being told her vomiting and neck ...

Athens and Limestone County declare Sept. 23 as Meningitis Awareness Day to honor Jessica Elkins and promote disease ...

Bacterial meningitis is a medical emergency requiring immediate antibiotics to prevent death or severe complications. The classic triad of symptoms—fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status—is ...