Ricky Ponting’s son suffered meningitis
Australian cricket legend Ricky Ponting has opened up on his son’s terrifying near-death experiences. Fletcher Ponting, five, has almost died twice in his short life, with his former Test captain father forced to watch on helplessly on both occasions. When Fletcher was just six weeks old he fought and won a desperate battle with meningitis […]
7 month old Adelaide baby with meningococcal
A case of invasive meningococcal disease has been notified in a seven-month-old baby girl from metropolitan Adelaide, who is in a stable condition in hospital. The strain has been identified as Serogroup B. The Department for Health and Wellbeing has identified multiple people who have had contact with the patient and 26 people have been […]
Qld MP’s son contracts bacterial meningitis
State MP for Southern Downs James Lister has thanked the community for an outpouring of well-wishes over the last 24 hours after his eldest son was flown to Toowoomba Hospital yesterday for treatment for bacterial meningitis. Jeremy Lister, 9, has been stabilised in hospital and the Lister family earlier this afternoon was awaiting the results […]
4th case of meningococcal in WA
The Department of Health today reported that an adult has been diagnosed with meningococcal serogroup B disease and is recovering at home. Meningococcal disease is an uncommon, life-threatening illness caused by a bacterial infection of the blood and/or the membranes that line the spinal cord and brain, and occasionally of other sites, such as the […]
SA man recovering from Men B
A case of invasive meningococcal disease has been notified in a 45-year-old male from metropolitan Adelaide, who is in a stable condition in hospital. The strain has been identified as serogroup B. SA Health has identified people who have had contact with the patient, with one person being directed to receive clearance antibiotics. Meningococcal health […]
Tasmanian teenager recovering from Men B
A 17-year-old girl is in a stable condition in the Launceston General Hospital recovering from meningococcal disease. She was diagnosed with meningococcal B infection. Clearance antibiotics have been given to the girl’s close contacts but Public Health Director Mark Vietch said it was very rare for a person to develop the illness through contact. “It […]
Brisbane man, died from meningitis after he was diagnosed with cold.
A doctor who diagnosed a young Queenslander with a cold had no way of knowing his patient would die from meningitis six days later, a coronial inquest has found. Dr Marco Zorzetto saw Daniel Christopher Roulant, 22, on November 23, 2017, at the Holland Park Family Medical Practice and believed his patient had a viral […]
Increased risk of COVID – 19 infection amongst smokers and waterpipe users
It has been documented that smokers incur a 2- to 4-fold increased risk of invasive pneumococcal lung disease, a disease associated with high mortality. Influenza risk is twofold higher and more severe in smokers compared with nonsmokers. In the case of tuberculosis smokers also have a twofold increased risk of contracting the infection and a […]
New coronavirus may have caused meningitis in Japan
Doctors at a hospital in Yamanashi Prefecture west of Tokyo, say the new coronavirus is likely to have caused meningitis in a male patient in his 20s. The man had a fever on February 27 and visited different medical institutions on February 28 and March 2, but was not tested for the coronavirus. The man […]
WA records third case of meningococcal disease
The Department of Health today reported that an adult has been diagnosed with meningococcal serogroup Y disease. Meningococcal disease is an uncommon, life-threatening illness caused by a bacterial infection of the blood and/or the membranes that line the spinal cord and brain, and occasionally of other sites, such as the throat, lungs or large joints. […]
