meningitis

The Florida Department of Health is recommending vaccination amid an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Florida. NBC 6’s Cristian Benavides reports

The Florida Department of Health is recommending vaccination amid an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Florida.

A baby’s first vacation turned for the worse after she got sick on board. Her family is now suing the cruise line, saying its doctors didn’t do enough.

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A swimming advisory was issued for beaches at Crandon South and North Shore Wednesday after water samples showed high levels of fecal bacteria, the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade said.

A swimming advisory was issued for Collins Park in Miami Beach Friday after water samples showed high levels of fecal bacteria, the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade said.

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State health officials have issued a swimming advisory for a Miami-Dade beach after high levels of fecal bacteria were discovered.

The Florida Department of Health has issued a swimming advisory for three Miami-Dade County beaches after an excess of a bacteria called enterococci was discovered in water samples, the agency said.

State officials have lifted the swimming advisory that was issued over bacterial levels in the water for two Miami-Dade County beaches.

A Miami daycare center attended by two children who died a week apart had no designated area to isolate sick children from healthy ones, according to a Florida Department of Children and Families inspection performed just days before the first child passed away.

A South Florida teen beat the odds to survive a brain-eating amoeba thanks to some quick-working doctors in Orlando.

A third student at Santa Clara University was diagnosed with meningococcal disease, a serious and sometimes deadly infection, the Santa Clara County Health Department announced Thursday.

Two students at Santa Clara University in California have been diagnosed with meningococcal disease, which can sometimes result in a deadly infection of the brain and spinal cord, school officials said.

A South Florida woman who was a nursing student at Georgetown University died Tuesday after apparently battling a bout of meningitis, school officials said.