1.   Meningitis can be caused by both bacteria and viruses.

2.   Bacteria that cause meningitis pose a danger only to susceptible individuals and are usually spread through close, prolonged contact with an infected individuals.

3.   This particular bug causes meningitis about two-thirds of the time and causes another blood infection about a third of the time.

4.   He said that the same pattern is occurring with the Hib vaccine, which protects against type B hemophilus influenza, which causes meningitis.

5.   It also refers to pneumonia brought on by the aspiration of food into the lungs, to liver degeneration and of a bacteriological infection that possibly caused meningitis.

6.   It protects against four types of bacteria that cause meningitis in the United States, which account for nearly two-thirds of the cases.

7.   Occasionally it causes meningitis, a less serious inflammation of the membranes that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord.

8.   Similarly, possible new vaccines against one organism that causes meningitis and against the organism that causes tuberculosis have also been created with genome work.

9.   The condition can be triggered by a variety of viruses, fungi, protozoans and bacteria, including the bug that causes bacterial meningitis.

10.   Pasteurella germs can cause meningitis or blood infections.