A meningitis epidemic that killed more than 500 people since January in Burkina Faso is over, a health ministry official said on Tuesday, but the government was rushing to contain a measles outbreak. "I can tell you that the meningitis epidemic is over," said the director of the ministerial department fighting the cerebro-spinal disease in the west African country, Dr ...

The death toll from an outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria has risen to 960 people of out more than 17,000 people infected since Jan. 1, the World Health Organization said Friday. "It's the first time we've had so many cases in northern Nigeria," an area outside the usual African "meningitis belt," said WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib. She ...

A fresh outbreak of meningitis has killed at least 58 people in northern Nigeria since the start of the year, health officials said on Tuesday. The most affected states are Gombe, Bauchi and Katsina, the officials said. "We have recorded 22 deaths in the last two weeks following a resurgence of an outbreak of meningitis which infected 357 people in ...

A second soldier stationed at the Army's Fort Leonard Wood has died of meningitis, officials said Tuesday. Army officials said Pvt. Randy Stabnick, 28, of South Bend, Ind., died Tuesday at a hospital in Springfield. A 23-year-old soldier from Alabama stationed at the base died Feb. 9. His name and hometown were not released at his family's request ...