{"id":903575,"date":"2026-05-05T05:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/meningitis-kills-a-quarter-million-people-a-year-study-estimates\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:21:49","slug":"meningitis-kills-a-quarter-million-people-a-year-study-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/meningitis-kills-a-quarter-million-people-a-year-study-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Meningitis kills a quarter million people a year, study estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a quarter of a million people worldwide die from meningitis a year, a large new study estimated on Saturday, following a recent outbreak of the disease in the UK&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2026-03-meningitis-quarter-million-people-year.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Luz Ramage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a quarter of a million people worldwide die from meningitis a year, a large new study estimated on Saturday, following a recent outbreak of the disease in the UK&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2902,26040,192],"tags":[6348,15709],"class_list":{"0":"post-903575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kills","8":"category-meningitis","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-kills","11":"tag-meningitis"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}