Sanofi-Aventis Group, a leading global pharmaceutical company, received federal approval for the use of its bacteria-infection vaccine Menactra in children on Friday .

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a license to Sanofi to expand the indication for its meningococcal conjugate vaccine, Menactra(R) to include children 2 years through 10 years of age

Within two years, Malaysia will produce the world's first halal meningitis vaccination. The $1.06 million USD (3.6 million MYR) research project, jointly run by the Universiti Sains Malaysia and the Finlay Institute in Cuba, expects to benefit millions of Muslims who annually troop to Saudi Arabia for the Haj pilgrimage.

A memorandum of understanding between the two institutions will be signed in Cuba on December, Malaysia Higher Education Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said Thursday at a gathering hosted by USM's Health Faculty

The Northern Sydney Central Coast Health (NSCCH) public health unit was notified of two separate and unrelated cases of meningococcal disease in the northern Sydney area on Thursday.

The two new cases have brought it to a total of three people suffering from the potentially fatal disease in the Sydney region. A toddler, with the same disease, was taken to a western Sydney hospital on Wednesday, where he was treated with antibiotics