Imagine waking up one morning with flu-like symptoms, only to find out

that you have contracted a potentially fatal disease from someone in a class or in

your dorm. Meningococcal meningitis is a rare but serious infection that

occasionally infects college students and others living in relatively isolated,

confined communities such as dormitories, thus making college students at a

greater risk for contracting the potentially fatal disease.

Meningitis is an inflammation of the linings of the brain and spinal chord

caused by either viruses or bacteria. Viral infections are more common than

bacterial infections, usually occurs in late spring and summer. Viral outbreaks

are often accompanied by stiff neck, nausea, headache, vomiting, and rash.

Cases of viral meningitis run a short uneventful course. On the other hand,

bacterial infections are very rare and occur sporadically throughout the year,

symptoms of the illness go unrecognized and mistaken for the flu. For this

disease. The meningococcal vaccination offers three to five years of protection

The American College Health Association recommends that all college

diagnosis and treatment, the likelihood of a full recovery is increased. Early

prevent the transmission of the disease by taking simple precautions such as

meningococcal meningitis causes grave illness and rapidly progresses to death if

disease that college students must be aware of in order to recognize, prevent,

passing of germs and events that lower immune system to bacteria.

vomiting, rash, and changes in mental state. The time of progression related to

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