1.   And tension grew as Stroud suffered a meningitis epidemic.

2.   At first, the soccer group attributed its cancellation to the health dangers posed by a meningitis epidemic that has killed hundreds in West Africa this year.

3.   The series opened with an article chronicling the death of a small child in the midst of a meningitis epidemic in Nigeria.

4.   A meningitis epidemic has hit southern Poland and a primary school remained closed Wednesday after a third of its students were reported sick.

5.   Agency specialists will visit five priority countries to examine their preparedness, and to help prepare a plan of action to control meningitis epidemics.

6.   Doctors Without Borders says it will launch an urgent campaign next week to fight a deadly meningitis epidemic in Nigeria.

7.   Four Cuban doctors are visiting Haiti to determine whether a vaccine developed in Cuba can help stop a meningitis epidemic that has killed dozens of people.

8.   Four Cuban doctors have arrived to investigate a meningitis epidemic that has killed dozens of people in southern Haiti.

9.   Meningitis epidemics in the region usually begin during the dry season from December to February and sometimes last more than a year.

10.   Meningitis epidemics usually run in cycles, and the first cases were reported in Sudan last December.