On May 29, Kai was enjoying a relaxing Saturday off, home from his first year at university. On May 30, he developed a headache and a fever. On June 1, he was disconnected from life support. This…
WATERLOO, Ontario, June 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In the wake of the tragic death of 19-year-old Kai Matthews of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Meningitis Foundation Canada (MFC) calls on all Canadian…
A Halifax family is searching for answers after their 19-year-old son died from meningitis B, the most common and most deadly strain of meningitis. On June 1, Kai Matthews passed away surrounded…
WATERLOO, Ontario, April 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This World Meningitis Day (April 24th), Meningitis Foundation Canada (MFC) is raising awareness of this ‘indiscriminate killer disease’ and…
WATERLOO, Ontario, Sept. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Meningitis Research Foundation of Canada extends a warm welcome to its new senior medical advisor, Dr. Joanne Langley.
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Aug. 31, 2020 /CNW/ - GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE: GSK) (NYSE: GSK) announced that a multi-national phase III clinical program investigating its 5-in-1 meningitis (MenABCWY) vaccine…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has greenlit Sanofi’s MenQuadfi Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine for the prevention of invasive meningococcal disease in individuals at least two years…
College students face a much higher risk for the deadly bacterial infection meningitis B, a new analysis shows.
In a new report published in Expert Review of Vaccines, the Global Meningococcal Initiative (GMI) – a leading group of scientists, doctors and public health officials – warns that the incidence of…
Parents were questioning the effectiveness of vaccines long before a now debunked 1998 report linked the MMR vaccine to autism, according to a new article from researchers at the University of…