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By New Born Solutions Meningitis can be quickly spotted in babies with “great accuracy” thanks to a new non-invasive device developed to do the testing anywhere it’s needed. A study showed that it identified the potentially deadly infection in new-borns and infants with 94% accuracy, potentially transforming current screening methods based on traditional lumbar punctures. Doctors say the high-resolution ultrasound …

A report in Clinical Infectious Diseases describes the largest US outbreak of fungal meningitis caused by Fusarium species, which occurred among residents who received epidural anesthesia for cosmetic surgeries with the same anesthesiologist in Matamoros, Mexico, in 2023. Of the 24 patients sickened, 12 died, which the authors say underscores the need for clinicians to suspect fungal meningitis in patients with …