Friday, October 19, 2012

Blog 8:Current Meningitis Outbreak: Is it truly linked to steroid medications?

There are a few kinds of meningitis; bacterial, fungal, and viral. “There has been nineteen deaths nationally according to the USA Today report (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/17/meningitis-outbreak-deaths/1639925/) and (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/14/us-usa-health-meningitis-idUSBRE8970TQ20121014).”

I feel this report is important for people to know, since we all have constant contact with others. Meningitis is a crippling killer disease. “Scientists are saying that the current meningitis outbreak here in the United States, is because of the tainted steroid medications. The report stated that Food and Drug Administration officials found fifty vials contaminated with the fungus. New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Massachusetts made these contaminated vials. These particular contaminated steroid medications were given intravenously for back pain (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/17/meningitis-outbreak-deaths/1639925/).” “This form of meningitis is rare, fungal. The symptoms are fever, severe and persistent headache, stiff painful neck, especially when trying to touch the chin to the chest, vomiting, confusion, decreased level of consciousness, and seizures. There are other symptoms like sluggishness, muscle aches, weakness, tingling, or weakness throughout the body, skin rash, and dizzy spell. Meningitis is inflammation of the coverings around the brain and spinal cord. Meningitis is extremely contagious. The germs that cause it can be passed from one person to another through coughing and sneezing and through close contact (http://children.webmd.com/vaccines/tc/meningitis-topic-overview).”

Meningitis is a worldwide problem.
A report stated that “bacterial meningitis remains a serious threat to global health; one hundred seventy thousand has died worldwide. Scientist has meningitis categorized in groups, Group A is a major problem in certain countries and Group B is the cause of endemic meningitis in developed countries, like this the United States (http://www.who.int/nuvi/meningitis/en/index.html).”

There are vaccines, the key of surviving meningitis is detecting and implementing antibiotics as soon as possible.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/17/meningitis-outbreak-deaths/1639925/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/14/us-usa-health-meningitis-idUSBRE8970TQ20121014
http://children.webmd.com/vaccines/tc/meningitis-topic-overview

http://www.who.int/nuvi/meningitis/en/index.html


 

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