Meningitis can occur due to a viral, bacterial, or fungal infection and requires emergency medical treatment. Symptoms may include a stiff neck, sleepiness, and headaches, among others.

Fungal meningitis, unlike viral and bacterial meningitis, is not contagious. One of the dead in Tennessee, 80-year-old Reba Temple, was a former health director for rural Hickman County.

[1–3] Most often these infections are bacterial; rarely is a postepidural injection meningitis case caused by fungi, and when present, fungal infection is often diagnosed only after a patient ...

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A CDC advisory group has recommended relaxing infection control protections despite ongoing hospital-acquired Covid19 and ...

US pharmaceutical company, the New England Compounding Center (NECC), is being investigated after a suggested link to a multi-state fungal meningitis outbreak in the US. The NECC was raided after ...

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Snydman says that one of the problems with fungal meningitis is that it can be difficult to recognize, but if you can recognize it, anti-fungal medications can be used to treat and hopefully cure ...

Says CDC Seven Dead, 161 Under Investigation After Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Linked to Surgeries in Mexico: CDC ...

For this outbreak, the CDC case definition for spinal or paraspinal infection was as follows: osteomyelitis, abscess, or other infection (e.g., soft-tissue infection) of unknown etiology, in the ...