While people of any age can
contract meningitis, newborns are at high risk of serious complications if they are infected.
Not exact matches
A 17 - year - old Buffalo Grove High School student is in critical condition today after
contracting bacterial
meningitis.
An 18 - day - old Mariana Reese Sifrit passed away in the summer of 2017 when she
contracted herpes that eventually turned into
Meningitis.
-- Infected newborns can
contract blood infections and
meningitis.
She
contracted bacterial
meningitis, was transferred to another hospital, and died.
About 20,000 children in the United States, most of them under 5 years old,
contracted Hib
meningitis each year.
All five agreed that the city had not done enough to address a
meningitis outbreak among gay and bisexual men, that a state ban on surrogacy services
contracts should be overturned, and that using condoms as evidence in criminal prosecutions should be barred.
After receiving a vaccine aimed at a type of
meningitis, people were less likely to
contract gonorrhea, scientists report online June 10 in the Lancet.
Those infected experience few problems, but their children can develop sepsis,
meningitis, or pneumonia if they
contract the bug during birth.
My father told me he had been born in 1902, a normal hearing child, but at an early age had
contracted spinal
meningitis.
After injecting himself with an experimental vaccine against encephalitis in 1969 and
contracting spinal
meningitis, he began a long descent into physical and mental illness that ended with his death in 1981.
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contracted fungal
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