Fungal meningitis, unlike viral and bacterial meningitis, is not contagious. One of the dead in Tennessee, 80-year-old Reba Temple, was a former health director for rural Hickman County.

"This is very atypical, we normally have about 3,000 bariatric surgeries done per month, but right now we're about half that ...

Persons who acquire HIV end up with compromised immune systems which lead to opportunistic infections like tuberculosis, ...

HIV has been around for over 42 years. But the epidemic has changed medically -- it's now a chronic manageable disease.

While certain unhealthy habits may feel comfortable, they do enough damage that some folks are finally abandoning them.

but they were doing so in a reckless way that led to hundreds of people suffering fungal meningitis and other infections.

Viral and noninfectious meningitis do not usually progress to encephalitis. Bacterial meningitis can lead to encephalitis. And fungal, parasitic, and amebic meningitis usually involve encephalitis.

Neurosurgery Department, UTHealth Houston, TX. (A.B.-G., S.B., S.L.P., M.P.M., H.A.Z., H.A.C., P.R.C., S.B., A.D., L.F.T., R.J.B., R.B., C.-J.C.) ...

Neurosurgery Department, UTHealth Houston, TX. (A.B.-G., S.B., S.L.P., M.P.M., H.A.Z., H.A.C., P.R.C., S.B., A.D., L.F.T., R.J.B., R.B., C.-J.C.) ...