Meningitis Research Paper

According to Ketunnuti, Kronman (2012) Meningitis is described as the swelling of the membrane, mainly in the meninges.
Meninges are the protective membrane that is responsible for covering the brain and the spinal cord.
There are several causes of this disease, and the most common kind or type that is being very infectious, including being viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections.
For example is the acute bacterial meningitis, which is one of the kinds of meningitis, this is a pediatric illness that continuous to cause significant disease burden, in the last 15 years, the mortatility rates remain unchanged.
Furthermore, in discovering and in introducing the pneumococcal, meningococcal, and Haemophilus influenzae type-B (HiB) which in the same way is a cause of bacterial infections that are often severe, vaccines of the said diseases earlier has altered the epidemiology and the occurrence/prevalence of meningitis in developed countries.
On the other hand, these vaccines are not yet available in many parts of the developing world due to poverty and not having enough of money, and bacterial meningitis caused by these vaccines preventable infections continues to cause significant illness.
In addition, in some countries particularly in/ United States, the majority of meningitis cases are due to viral agents, but the highest morbidity are mortality rates are due to bacterial meningitis which is severe and can cause very serious complications.
The predominant bacterial pathogens causing meningitis are differed depending on the age and immune system of the host.
In addition, Robert W. White II a regional epidemiologist stated that the inflammation of the protective membrane is generally caused by an infection in the fluid that surrounds the brain and the spinal cord. Meningitis is also referred as spinal
meningitis.
Based on what Heymann, D. (2010) said, that this communicable or transmitted disease (meningitis is one of these diseases) can kill and can cause a long term disability.
According to him, these microbial agents which is the one that causing or treating the disease from the products of, or the microorganism itself. Microbial agents, the cause of this microbial agent are dynamic, changeable and resilient. Also the communicable diseases are the one that are responsible for more than 14 million deaths each year, mainly in emerging countries. Moreover, approximately 46 percent of all deaths in the third world countries are due to communicable diseases like meningitis and 90 percent through aids/HIV and others.
According to this book Deadly Diseases and Epidemics: meningitis (2010), that meningitis is a silent disease or a “silent killer” In spite of the serious and characteristic damage it causes to the body, physicians have trouble identifying this disease. Unfortunately cases of meningitis started showing up it took the death of a young person to bring public awareness to this problem.
Furthermore, New Jersey Department of Health, (2016) stated that germs can normally cause the everyday sickness, like for instance/example, an ear infection or pneumonia. It is not known why one person gets meningitis when others exposed to the same germs do not get as sick, or don't get sick at all. Sometimes funguses, cancers, head injuries or other factors can cause meningitis, but cases from these sources are rare. In general, meningitis caused by a virus is less serious than meningitis caused by bacteria.
Based on Franks’ (2009) literature review. Likewise, that meningitis is the swelling of the meninges and is known clinically by the demonstration of white blood cells in the cerebrospinal fluid or CSF.
Atiken (1872) stated that meningitis is the inflammation of the membrane of the cord, or of its membrane or both.