I have a friend whose daughter died of meningitis, so when the meningitis C vaccine came out, I wanted to have it for my son, Euen, who was 20 months at the time. We went to the doctor to get the ...
For the past several weeks, our phone has been ringing off the hook from the press about the dangers of the meningitis C vaccine, now that the papers have got wind of the fact that there have been ...
I started a music degree course at Birmingham Conservatoire as a mature student (I'm 24) in September 1999. A month later, I had the meningitis C vaccine, as all the first year students had been ...
A Finnish hospital has come up with a new approach to the prevention of acute otitis media in children between one and three years the flu vaccine! The study showed that incidence of acute otitis ...
Meningitis is a rare disease of the lining of the brain which very occasionally can be fatal. Despite its rarity, late last summer the British Department of Health (DoH) started a huge campaign a ...
If you take nothing else from all our E-mail broadcasts, take only this and pass it on to the younger generations: don’t eat raw snails. It’s a lesson that one South Vietnamese gentleman and his two sons had to learn the hard way. They...
The old combined A and C meningitis vaccine was a "polysaccharide", made of a bit of the coat that forms the bacterial wall of Neisseria meningitidis strain C. Like the old Hib meningitis polysac ...
I was glad to see you write about some of the benefits of high-dose vitamin C (WDDTY vol 16 no 11). It’s very sad that drug-company propaganda has made people more afraid of natural remedies than drugs, which can kill and incapacitate millions. As a...
A patient who was given Zantac (ranitidine) went on to develop aseptic meningitis, two French doctors have observed. They suspect that drug induced meningitis may be related to the immune system b ...
A recent case report suggests that the meningitis bacteria can change serotypes, mutating, for example, from type C to type B or vice versa. ...