Meningitis

And he had Cryptococcal meningitis.

Malaria, meningitis and cholera epidemics occur regularly.

They used some of this diluted penicillin against meningitis.

He'd had meningitis. They gave it some of Lime's penicillin.

In addition, in 1992 10 cases of tubercular meningitis were registered.

And so I went on to Google, Cryptococcal meningitis, you know.

47. Meningococcal cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) is an endemic disease in the Sudan.

Bacterial meningitis occurs in about 3 people per 100,000 annually in Western countries.

kankossainfo also spoke about how meningitis caused victims in Assaba province Kankossain Info knew from medical sources that 14 persons died so far in Assaba province because of Meningitis known locally by Bibourouis .

In general, cholera seemed to be under control and meningitis has also been fading.

Meanwhile, Alegcom blog cites an official source, attributing the causes of the deaths to Meningitis

Where outbreaks were identified, agencies coordinated their actions to undertake measles and meningitis vaccination campaigns.

The scourge of known diseases such as meningitis and malaria has been on the increase.

They are more vulnerable than others to polio, measles, meningitis, cholera amp amp other diseases.

For cerebrospinal meningitis, he suggested altered house designs, early vaccination initiatives, mobile clinics and health education.

An increased prevalence of diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, meningitis, measles and poliomyelitis has been reported.

WHO assisted in assessing Zambia apos s health needs arising from drought and cholera, dysentery and meningitis epidemics.

Soon, there were incidents of typhus, measles, scarlet fever, meningitis, smallpox, dysentery and cholera. Athens' and Piraeus's faces changed.

By mid 1993, this effort, together with the arrival of rains, was reflected in a drop in meningitis cases reported.

43. Cases of shigellosis and meningitis were also recorded, and the distribution of treatment protocols as well as vaccinations started.

Iran states that it provided a range of vaccinations for diseases, such as tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles and meningitis.

To combat outbreaks of meningitis, one million doses of vaccines and 500,000 syringes, together with cash support, were provided to augment national stocks.

It wasn't until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis, a vaccine preventable blood infection.

In order to protect society from infectious, indigenous or imported diseases, campaigns have been conducted to administer meningitis vaccinations through all primary health care centres.

The response to epidemic cycles of malaria, cholera and meningitis depended heavily on the operational resources of United Nations agencies and NGOs working in the sector.

In 1993, the childhood mortality rate in Liberia was 190 1,000, with measles, meningitis, diarrhoea, malnutrition and neonatal tetanus as leading causes of death among children.

That fear caused a lapse in general vaccinations, and earlier this year in Guinea, there was an outbreak of measles. Philips says Liberia recently suffered a meningitis outbreak.

Displaced populations, mobile or concentrated in camps, are extremely vulnerable to measles, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis and other diseases that have reached epidemic proportions in many areas of southern Sudan.

WHO emergency assistance has included health needs assessment and the provision of US 80,000 worth of new emergency health kits to cope with drought, cholera and meningitis epidemics and floods.

In February 1993, the WHO office in the Sudan warned of an imminent outbreak of meningitis emergency measures to control these outbreaks are envisaged in consultation with the Government and donors.

In December 2001 the Government of Uruguay expressed its desire to purchase from Cuba a batch of anti meningitis vaccines the Cuban Government decided to supply the vaccines in response to that request.

He presented a case study from Ghana that linked air temperature and humidity projections with distribution of diseases by showing that periods of high meningitis, diarrhoea and malaria cases coincide with periods of high air temperature.

Consequently, Nigeria had adopted a poverty alleviation strategy that offered credit to rural women and universal vaccination against polio, measles and meningitis, as well as the distribution of insecticide treated mosquito nets to children in rural areas.

But what about when a population is already ill? In 1996, during a major meningitis epidemic in northern Nigeria, the drug company Pfizer supplied doctors with the oral antibiotic Trovan, which was being tested against another drug, ceftriaxone.

The larvae are then transported via the blood to the central nervous system (CNS), where they are the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis, a serious condition that can lead to death or permanent brain and nerve damage.

Eleven children died during the Trovan trial, and others were left permanently disabled. Still, the death rate in the Trovan trial was much lower than the rate from untreated meningitis, bolstering the case for administering untested Ebola drugs today.

The declaration in question states The Government of Cuba will keep its word, and early in June will deliver to Uruguay the remaining 800,000 of the total 1,200,000 doses of meningitis vaccine which it is committed to donating (ibid.).

The Subcommittee noted with appreciation the work that had been carried out by its members and observers in bringing space system based telemedicine to countries in Africa, in order to solve problems related to malaria, meningitis, Guinea worm and other diseases.

The Subcommittee noted with appreciation the work that had been carried out by its members and observers in bringing space system based telemedicine to countries in Africa, in order to solve problems related to malaria, meningitis, Guinea worm and other diseases.

Around the turn of the century, the first sequencing of the human genome led to reverse vaccinology. This approach, whereby computational analysis of a pathogen s genome enables identification and screening of a great many more potential vaccine targets than was previously possible, was used in the successful development of a vaccine against meningitis B.

In the health sector, France was implementing a project for epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases components of that project included the installation of a monitoring facility in the area where meningitis was prevalent, and a pilot project to establish an inventory of surface water in the basin of the Nakambé river, using remote sensing techniques.