New Hampshire Bacterial Meningitis Alert

Ouch thats tough...

(Not Jokingly)

They have no drugs for that stuff?

Horrible.

That crap is indeed one of the scariest things that can happen to someone..right out of the blue, for no reason, and nearly always fatal within even a day of initial infection.

Several years ago I left a New Years' eve party, hugging one of my favorite friends, a scientist named Milt, before I went home, with a promise to call the next week to get together again. I called that next week, and his roommate first asked me my full name, checked a list, and then said "OK, you were in his address book...I'm sorry to say that Milt is dead." A day or two after New Years', he came home early from work, went to bed with what he said was a splitting headache...next morning he was sweating and delirious. Roommate thought it best to call an ambulance...he died at the hospital. Perfectly healthy, 35 year old man. Bam. Just horrible for the family. I remember when I heard the news over the phone, my knees buckled and I fell to the floor with grief.

My mum works @ a government org her in Melbourne called VicHealth which organises and funds health research, physical activity etc. one day she gave me a booklet on known diseases and health issues and inside was Meningitis info.

It's truly awful disease, but I'm amazed at how bacteria and viruses attack the body, and how the body tries and fails/succeeds in destroying the offending body...

The human body is an amazing thing, but what attacks it is sometimes even more amazing.

This is really sad....but what I'd love to know is how they all got it. What's the connection - and then there's that man in Mass. who had it at the same time....weirdness.

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