traveled from Sidney‚ Australia through Los Angeles International airport to JFK International Airport. This passenger began to feel ill and required assistance at the JKF airport. This passenger was hospitalized and diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis. From 1999 through 2001 the CDC received 21 reports of air-travel associated meningococcal disease‚ every 6 weeks on average. The spread of airborne pathogens including Neisseria meningitides‚ are spread easily in the environment of a Commercial
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Meningitis: Spinal Meningitis Got Me Down Meningitis is a highly infectious disease that is very well known throughout the world today. It is an inflammation of the meninges of the brain and spinal cord. In 1805‚ Meningitis was discovered during an outbreak in Geneva‚ Switzerland. Furthermore‚ in 1996 Africa experienced the largest recorded outbreak of meningitis that caused more than 250‚000 people to be infected with meningitis and more than 25‚000 were killed. The largest and most recurring
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Prevention really is the best cure. Meningitis is the inflammation of the fluid and membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord‚ known as the meninges. The inflammation is usually caused by an infection of the fluid surrounding the brain or spinal cord. There are three main types of the meningitis infection: bacterial (both infectious and non-infectious)‚ viral‚ and fungal/environmental (including parasitic). Meningitis may develop in response to a number of causes‚ usually bacteria or viruses
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Cultural and Disease Paper - Meningitis University of Phoenix HCS 245 Introduction to Health and Diseases MU11BHA06 November 02‚ 2011 Cultural and Disease Paper - Meningitis It was mid-February 1968 in a city in the central region of El Salvador‚ two men sitting on the street curve outside the doctor’s office. One of them was the doctor himself; the other man was a poor steel worker whom two years earlier lost his second child to bronchitis. The doctor
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disease can be either bacterial or viral. But today‚ I will focus my efforts on a rather known disease called bacterial meningitis. Let me jump right in! Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges caused by a bacteria or virus. It is extremely important to know whether the disease is viral or bacterial‚ because‚ bacterial meningitis is more severe than viral meningitis. Bacterial meningitis can affect all age groups such as newborns‚ infants and children‚ adolescents and young adults‚ and lastly‚ older
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Pneumococcal meningitis is an infection that causes swelling and inflammation of the meninges of the brain and spinal cord. It is caused when the bacteria flows through the blood and affects the membranes that are around the brain and spinal cord. The bacteria multiplies in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) the bacteria releases poison in to the CSF which causes swelling in the meninges and the brain tissue. Which in turns causes swelling of the brain causing increased pressure on the brain. This produces
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Meningitis Reagan Odom Baptist College of Health Sciences Abstract Meningitis is a life threatening infection that can be treated if caught early enough. This paper will summarize the causative organism‚ how it is transmitted‚ signs and symptoms‚ the pathogenesis‚ epidemiology‚ diagnosis‚ and the treatment and prevention for this disease. Keywords: bacterial‚ fungal‚ meningitis‚ viral Meningitis Meningitis (2011) describes meningitis as‚ “a serious inflammation of the meninges‚ the thin‚ membranous
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Meningitis is a bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. A family who lived in Geneva‚ Switzerland was first diagnosed with the disease in 1805. It was not until 1866‚ that the disease traveled its way into the United States. Professor Anton Weichselbaum discovered the cause of cerebro-spinal meningitis illness in 1887. There are five types of meningitis: bacterial meningitis‚ viral meningitis‚ parasitic meningitis‚ fungal meningitis‚ and non-infectious meningitis
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Meningitis And The Different Types of This Disease Your Name Your College Introduction to Human Biology 1101-01 Prepared for: Professor Braun January 14‚ 2013 Meningitis Meningitis is an infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord‚ which is called the meninges‚ and causes inflammation. This inflammation can be caused by a virus‚ bacteria‚ or other microorganisms‚ but can also be causes by certain types of drugs which is very rare. Meningitis is
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Bacterial Meningitis on the Brain Abstract Meningitis is an infection of the subarachnoid space (located between the middle arachnid matter and the inner pia mater) of the meninges‚ which is the thin layer of tissues that line the brain and the spinal cord. Cerebrospinal fluid flows through the subarachnoid space and the meninges‚ providing cushion for the brain and the spinal cord‚ and filling the internal spaces within the brain. There are 2 main types of meningitis‚ including
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