a dark purple rash. While symptoms of meningococcal disease can at first be nonspecific, they worsen rapidly, and the disease can become life-threatening within hours. According to the CDC ...

If you have tiny red, purple, or brown spots on your skin ... potentially deadly infection such as meningococcal disease. Go to the ER. This disease can progress very rapidly and should be ...

WA Health has reported that an adult has been diagnosed with meningococcal serogroup B disease and is recovering in hospital.Meningococcal disease is ...

Even people familiar with meningococcal disease are astonished at the rapidity with which this rare though deadly illness can ravage the body. Within hours, patients can go from perfectly healthy ...

Meningococcal disease is caused by a bacterial infection ... the bacteria invades the bloodstream or tissues. A spotty red-purple rash that looks like small bleeding points beneath the skin ...

The Mobile County Health Department has confirmed a case of meningococcal disease -- the first case reported in the county ...

In February 2010, a quadrivalent conjugate vaccine (Menveo; Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics) was approved by the US FDA to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis ...

Certain types of behaviors, such as marijuana smoking, cigarette smoking, disco attendance, and intimate kissing likely increase the risk of meningococcal disease through some of the mechanisms ...