The most common type of spinal meningitis is viral meningitis. Other types are bacterial, parasitic, fungal, amoebic, and noninfectious. A virus causes the most common type of meningitis.

Nineteen people contracted valley fever after a Bakersfield music festival in May, California health officials said.

As of Aug. 21, at least 19 people who attended or worked at the "Lightning in a Bottle" festival in Kern County in late May ...

If not treated early, this culprit can be dangerous. Infectious meningitis can take many forms-- viral, fungal, and bacterial, which can be the deadliest. But how does it make its attack on your ...

According to the charity Meningitis Now, there are different kinds of meningitis, including bacterial, viral and fungal – ...

Fungal meningitis, unlike viral and bacterial meningitis, is not contagious. One of the dead in Tennessee, 80-year-old Reba Temple, was a former health director for rural Hickman County.

US pharmaceutical company, the New England Compounding Center (NECC), is being investigated after a suggested link to a multi-state fungal meningitis outbreak in the US. The NECC was raided after ...

One particularly lethal fungal infection is cryptococcal meningitis. The fungus is concentrated in pigeon droppings and found across the world. It infects people when breathed in. Normally, the immune ...

for deaths related to the outbreak. More than 700 people in 20 states were sickened with fungal meningitis or other debilitating illnesses, and dozens died as a result of tainted steroids shipped ...

Cadden, 57, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Michigan earlier this year and was sentenced to 10 years in ...

Since January 2023, the CDC has identified 14 suspected, 11 probable, and two confirmed US cases of fungal meningitis that have been linked to cosmetic procedures performed in Mexico. The agency ...

Valley fever is a fungal disease which is common in San Joaquin ... especially in the knees or ankles, and meningitis, an infection of the membranes and fluid surrounding the brain and spinal ...