Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord that can be caused by different pathogens including viruses, bacteria or fungi and parasites. The illness is contracted because of an infection, but can also be caused by cancer and autoimmune diseases.
When meningitis is contagious can be caused by viruses or bacteria. [...]

It’s still alarm meningitis in northern Italy. Today a boy aged 17 was admitted to intensive care in Venice and is in a coma. This is a seventeen-year resident at Zelarono, near Venice, Umberto I hospital in Mestre. Examinations, reports Onofrio Lamanna, Director of the Hospital Umberto I, have shown that this is a case [...]