meningitis

• Last week, the health ministry identified the Hoima outbreak to be the meningococcal meningitis which is caused by a bacteria and is transmitted from person-to-person through contact with throat secretions. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
• The ministry identified the outbreak to be the meningococcal meningitis, which is caused by bacteria transmitted from person-to-person through contact with throat secretions. —  Flu Wiki Forum - Front Page
• Doctors suspect that Ntleke may have cryptococcal meningitis, which is not as dangerous as meningococcal meningitis. —  IOL: News
• Yesterday, Dr Lucille Blumberg of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed that the national laboratory had recorded 12 cases for the province in 2009, all of which were meningococcal meningitis, which is more than double 2008's figure.
• Man's brain infected by eating slugs - "A Sydney-based man who ate two garden slugs as a dare during a party narrowly escaped death from a rare form of meningitis, an often fatal swelling around the brain." —  Balderdash

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