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Monday, February 18, 2013  An 8-year-old boy in the Grand Rapids area has died, a likely victim of bacterial meningitis.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012  The Fungal Meningitis outbreak has now reached 16 states, has been connected to 297 illnesses and 23 deaths - including 5 in Michigan so far.

Thursday, October 04, 2012  No cases of a rare kind of meningitis linked to an outbreak in six states have been reported in Michigan, even though some tainted steroids have been distributed in the state.

Wednesday, September 05, 2012 

Sunday, July 01, 2012  Officials in Suttons Bay say it's safe again to drink tap water in the northwestern Lower Peninsula community.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012  Several beaches in Chippewa County have been closed due to elevated levels of E. coli.

Friday, May 11, 2012  Central Michigan University is asking students who were in close contact with 19-year-old Nicholas Collins to call health officials.

Thursday, February 16, 2012  APNewsBreak: Obama's budget axes USDA program that tests for deadly bacteria in fresh produce

Monday, November 21, 2011  They're everywhere...micro-organisms.  Even living comfortably on that kitchen sponge right next to your sink.  What about the other places in your home and even your workplace?  7&4 News contacted the microbiology lab at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City.  They gave us culture plates and we went to work.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011  Concerns are growing in one Mecosta County School District Tuesday as a 9th grade girl is on life support after contracting bacterial meningitis. She's a student at Chippewa Hills High School in Remus.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011  A Mecosta County teenager is on life support battling bacterial meningitis.

Friday, March 04, 2011  Residents in the city of Manton are asked to boil their water before using it after recent tests showed coliform bacteria was present.

Monday, October 25, 2010  Dr. Robert Graham, Medical Director for Central Michigan District Health Department gives details about a case of Bacterial Meningitis that shut down Farwell Middle School Monday.

Monday, September 13, 2010  An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday

Thursday, August 12, 2010  People traveling to India for medical procedures have brought back to Britain a new gene that allows any bacteria to become a superbug, and scientists are warning this type of drug resistance could soon appear worldwide.