Meningococcal disease is a fatal disease affecting some people and causing serious complications, but infectious diseases can be treated and avoided by instant medical care and patient effort You can (MacNeil & Cohn, 2014). Etiology Neisseria meningitis is caused by bacteria called meningococcus. This bacterium normally develop sporadic or epidemic disease at the end of winter or spring, and one person is more likely to ingest pathogens through droplets.
What is meningococcal disease? Men-in-jo-kok-ul disease is rarely caused by bacteria called meningococcus, but sometimes is a fatal disease. This disease causes meningitis, severe swelling of the brain and spinal cord, or meningococcemia, a serious blood infection. Who is in danger of meningococcal disease? Risk is very low, but it will happen. Infants under 1 year old are at the highest risk of meningococcal disease, but there is no preventable vaccine. Young people and young people between the ages of 15 and 22 are at high risk of spreading this disease. On average, 2 to 3 people develop meningococcal disease in Oklahoma every year. More than half of them can be prevented with a vaccine. Freshmen of universities living in the dormitory are more likely to suffer from this disease than their colleagues. How is the disease spreading? Is meningococcal disease dangerous?
Meningococcal disease, meningitis is becoming increasingly common, and is fatal every day worldwide. There are various kinds of meningococcal diseases such as A, B, C, Y, W135. A and B are mainly cases seen worldwide, type A is mainly in Africa, type B is in New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. They can treat type A, type C, type Y and type W 135, but the most deadly and destructive type is type B, and treatment was not found. B type is mainly seen in newborns because the immune system is not as strong as the virus. However, the number of infected adolescents and adults has doubled in the United States from 15-24 to 300, and 600. They believe that this is becoming increasingly common among university students. As type B became extremely lethal, in the UK there is a corresponding team working on cases of meningococcal disease