Three young people contract meningitis in Weymouth

This is famously the case in the Meningitis Belt – which stretches across 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia. Dust, high temperatures and low humidity throughout the dry season are thought to damage the back of the throat and give the bacteria a route into the body. This triggers regular epidemics.

A higher proportion of people in England are now contacting their GP surgery online than by phone, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Data covering three weeks from mid-September suggest just over 43% of people went online to contact their GP – an increase of a percentage point from the…

A Georgia man who blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for his mental health problems opened fire on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Atlanta headquarters on August 8, killing a police officer before he died from gunshot wounds, according to media reports. The man, Patrick White, 30, had five guns on him during the…