Meningitis

Meningitis is a terrible disease.

The belief that going outside with your hair still wet will result in meningitis is just an urban myth.

What are the symptoms of meningitis?

When Cameroonian golf champion Issa Nlareb Amang lost his legs and most of his fingers to meningitis in 2018, many thought his life in the sport was over. But, thanks to donors, he was able to get prosthetics that allowed him to return to the game and become the only disabled professional golfer in West Africa.

Causes of epilepsy include injury around the time of birth, brain infections from illnesses such meningitis or encephalitis and stroke.

Karl contracted bacterial meningitis.

A meningitis vaccine that costs 50 cents a dose and can be transported and stored for as long as four days without refrigeration or an icepack is available in Africa, and has already had a dramatic impact in fighting the disease in the parts of Burkina Faso and Chad where it has been administered.

Tom has meningitis.

Doctors are treating a Los Angeles woman for aseptic meningitis, an irritation of the membrane that covers the brain. Preliminary tests suggest she has the West Nile virus, but tests to confirm its presence will take several days.

The WHO would like to see that same commitment to eliminate the disease in 45 other trachoma-stricken countries. But in many of these countries, trachoma will have to get in line behind other pressing health issues like AIDS, tuberculosis, and meningitis. Morocco has more money to spend on trachoma than many poorer developing countries. And the disease was already on its way out when the current campaign began in 1997.