Fever, headache, neck stiffness, nausea and vomiting, confusional state: these are the most frequent symptoms that appear when a bacterial infection causes inflammation of the meninges, or the covering of the brain and spinal cord. From the meninges some of the bacteria responsible for meningitis can reach the blood and other organs, causing serious complications and death.
She bears physical witness to these serious clinical complications on a daily basis Bebe Vioinfected by Neisseria meningitidis of group C and forced to undergo surgery to amputate her forearms and legs. More than one hundred days in hospital, with therapeutic actions that were initially life-saving and then aimed at limiting organic damage, visible on the entire body surface. We currently have available vaccines, the most effective intervention to prevent some types of bacterial meningitis. When meningitis develops, administration of antibiotics to prevent illness in close contacts. It is necessary to increase awareness of the importance of vaccination prevention, increasing coverage, which is currently still not higher than expected.
Four years ago, a roadmap for meningitis was approved by the seventy-third World Health Assembly, the first historic resolution on the prevention and control of the disease: a plan to try to defeat it by 2030.
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