An Ill Wind, Bringing Meningitis

sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 4 weeks (www.sciencemag.org)

The dust is inescapable, burning your eyes, clogging your nose, penetrating into your lungs, and making breathing ragged. In March, on the road to Koudougou, some 100 km west of Ouagadougou, the landscape is moonlike. In the cratered bottom of a lakebed, dust-caked men, barely distinguishable from their surroundings, fashion bricks from the mud. The bricks will dry quickly in the baking heat, which tops 45°C each day.

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Parents spare the vaccines and sicken the children

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)

I would like to nominate ABC and all the other anti-vaccine elements who decided to ignore the science and play up that hype: Twelve kids in San Francisco just got measels, nine of them because their parents thought that the vaccines were too dangerous.

Let's see... What are the dangers of NOT vaccinating the kids? Pneumonia, brain swelling, and -- oh what was that other one -- DEATH!! One contributor put it very well. Because vaccines became so widespread during the twentieth century, the parents have never seen measels and don't know how dangerous it is

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Infant vaccine against meningitis shows promise

Sue Wu submitted, created time 10 months 3 weeks (www.usatoday.com)

An experimental vaccine appears to protect newborns from meningococcal disease, a major cause of meningitis.

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New Meningitis Vaccine Works in Infants

sumsung submitted, created time 10 months 3 weeks (health.allrefer.com)

A new type of meningitis vaccine appears to offer protection for babies against several strains of the deadly bacterial form of the disease, British and Canadian researchers report.

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Postoperative Central Nervous System Infection: Incidence and Associated Factors in 2111 Neurosurgical Procedures

athena submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.journals.uchicago.edu)

"Postoperative central nervous system infection (PCNSI) in patients undergoing neurosurgical procedures represents a serious problem that requires immediate attention. PCNSI most commonly manifests as meningitis, subdural empyema, and/or brain abscess. Recent studies (which have included a minimum of 1000 operations) have reported that the incidence of PCNSI after neurosurgical procedures is 5%–7%, and many physicians believe that the true incidence is even higher. To address this issue, we examined the incidence of PCNSI in a sizeable patient population."

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Africa meningitis kills 1,670 in 2 months

Paramecium submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.msnbc.msn.com)

Meningitis has infected nearly 16,000 people and killed 1,670 in sub-Saharan Africa in the last two months, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

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Meningitis outbreak kills thousands in Africa

athena submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.newscientist.com)

Meningitis has infected nearly 16,000 people and killed 1670 in sub-Saharan Africa in the past two months

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