There are usually fewer than eight cases of amoebic meningitis per year in the United States. Fungal meningitis is rare and usually affects people with compromised immune systems. In these people, a ...

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.

According to the charity Meningitis Now, there are different kinds of meningitis, including bacterial, viral and fungal – although, says Claire Donovan, a helpline and information nurse manager at the ...

FDA investigators said on Oct. 5, they had observed fungal contamination by direct ... received the injections have had strokes related to meningitis. In several patients, the meningitis was ...

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 ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- For the roughly 150,000 patients with AIDS who come down with a life-threatening infection called fungal meningitis each year, there aren’t many options. In many parts of the world ...

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 ...

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 ...