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News items on 'Meningococcal Infection'
Meningitis bacteria 'masquerade as human cells to evade body's defences'
(Telegraph 18/02/2009)
Findings, published in the journal Nature, show that a protein on the outside of the meningitis cell signal to the immune system that it is human, preventing any attack. Professor Lea of Oxford University, who led the study, says, "this protein enables the meningococcal bacteria to pass themselves off as human cells, and the disguise is good enough to fool the immune system."
Baby died day after medical check
(BBC 11/11/2008)
Aleesha Evans's parents were told by staff at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport that she had a viral infection and needed only Calpol and Nurofen. She was taken home but rushed back to hospital. "I woke up at seven and I saw Aleesha was covered in bruises. I called an ambulance straight away...," her mother said. Aleesha died at a Cardiff hospital of suspected meningococcal septicaemia.
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