Bacterial meningitis, often fatal if untreated, leads to inflammation around the brain and may cause severe complications ...

As its name implies, walking pneumonia is a kind of pneumonia (an infection where the air sacs in the lungs fill with fluid ...

Infections tend to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 have been rampant among young children, ...

Walking pneumonia differs from other respiratory infections like flu or cold because it quickly settles in the chest and can ...

As we march into the heart of respiratory virus season, here's what to know about what's circulating throughout the state.

Pink eye is what occurs when the thin membrane that lines the white of the eye and the eyelid becomes infected and inflamed.

Thousands of children aged under two have contracted pneumococcal disease, a dangerous infection caused by the Streptococcus ...

Pneumococcal outbreak worst in 20 yearsRollout of new generation vaccines must begin nowRates of pneumococcal disease – a life-threatening bacterial ...

while pneumonia can be caused by bacteria like streptococcus pneumoniae, hemophilus influenzae, Legionella pneumophila, or viruses such as influenza, the cold virus, or RSV. Doctors can test for ...