The fungus behind a spate of deadly meningitis cases last year linked to medical clinics in Mexico was found to have aggressively attacked the base of patients’ brains, researchers said Wednesday in a ...

Over 200 people are at risk of fungal meningitis after having surgical procedures in Matamoros, Mexico, a city along the U.S. border. Six people have already died of fungal meningitis as health ...

Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] In May of this year, two surgery centers in Matamoros, ...

At least two Americans have died and 17 have suspected or probable cases of a potentially deadly infection linked to an outbreak at cosmetic surgery clinics in Mexico. The infected patients contracted ...

As public health officials continue to plead with people who may have been exposed to fungal meningitis at two cosmetic clinics in Mexico to get tested, doctors in a small Texas county are noticing a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued revised guidance for treating patients who contracted fungal meningitis from an outbreak this fall. The outbreak stemmed from contaminated ...

Public health officials are having a hard time trying to track and test nearly 200 people in the U.S. who may be at risk for fungal meningitis tied to cosmetic procedures performed at two clinics in ...

A recent outbreak of fungal meningitis cases in the U.S. has been tied to a single center in Matamoros, Mexico, where affected individuals received epidural anesthesia, according to a July report ...

The CDC's fungal meningitis risk period of 42 days ends as new cases surface. Nov. 7, 2012— -- The 42-day risk period for contracting fungal meningitis from tainted steroid injections ended on ...

As public health officials continue to plead with people who may have been exposed to fungal meningitis at two cosmetic clinics in Mexico to get tested, doctors in a small Texas county are noticing a ...