meningitis

On What's Health Got to Do With It, experts discuss the biggest medical headlines of the past month. Other topics include recent outbreaks of a pediatric hepatitis and meningococcal meningitis,

A potentially deadly disease that can cause meningitis is now in Tallahassee after health officials warned of a statewide outbreak last month.

Six men in the county have been diagnosed with meningitis this year, and three men in their 30s have died from the illness. It's the most cases the area has seen in five years.

Pointing to tough legal standards approved by the Legislature, an appeals court Wednesday rejected workers’ compensation insurance claims involving…

Temperatures are not the only thing to increase during the summer. Emergency room visits also increase during the summer when kids are on summer break and…

A Miami day care has shut down following the deaths of two toddlers a week apart from possible meningitis infections.The Miami Herald reports that the…

A new disease has been found in five Florida counties, including Hillsborough. It goes by the name of rat lungworm, and it comes courtesy of snails....

The family of a 4-year-old Bradenton girl diagnosed with meningitis last month says the child has died.Belinda Dangerfield says the family decided to take…

Friends and classmates of an Oviedo woman with bacterial meningitis have been notified they are at risk of the highly contagious disease that causes…

Health officials suspect bacterial meningitis killed a 4-year-old Pasco County boy, the Tampa Tribune reports. Results from a lab test by the county…