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Meningitus at my school!

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danmooj1
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States1855 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-11-15 13:12:15
November 15 2006 13:11 GMT
#1
Two people were diagnosed with bacterial meningitus at our school so everyone had to take antibodies. They put one of them in a coma and she woke up today morning and the other one is doing well. The two patients don't know each other at all and have no classes together so it's two different cases.

This is meningitis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis


A student at Crescenta Valley High School in La Crescenta has tested positive for bacterial meningitis and a second is suspected of having the rare but dangerous disease, Los Angeles County health officials said Tuesday.

The disclosure prompted more than half of the school's 3,000 students to flock to the school with their parents to receive oral antibiotics provided by county Department of Public Health officials. Officials said they will continue dispensing the pills today for the disease, which is more serious than viral meningitis.

Myrna Aguila, a nursing supervisor with the county Public Health Department in Glendale, said the risk is to those who have had very close contact with someone infected or carrying the bacteria. She said the disease can be spread through saliva — kissing, sharing a cigarette or a drink, or living in the same home as people with the disease.

Still, she said officials would not turn down anyone seeking the antibiotic, even if they did not appear to have been exposed.

The affliction, also known as meningococcal disease, strikes about 2,600 people in the United States each year, killing about 10% to 15%, according to the California Department of Health Services website. The agency added that an additional 11% to 19% lose their arms or legs, become deaf, have brain damage or suffer seizures or strokes.

Symptoms include fever, severe headache, a stiff neck, vomiting, a decreased level of consciousness and seizures.

The disease is most common in infants under a year old and in people with certain medical conditions, such as having no spleen.

College students living in dormitories also are at increased risk.

Gail Johnson, head counselor at Crescenta Valley High, which is in the foothills above Glendale, said administrators learned of the problem early Tuesday after being contacted by the father of the student suspected of having the disease. She said administrators alerted students and their parents throughout the day, and public health officials started giving out the antibiotic at the school at 6 p.m.

For more information, residents can contact the county's Glendale Health Center at (818) 500-5760.



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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-11-15 13:29:07
November 15 2006 13:27 GMT
#2
Ha... if anyone wants to know how it works, I'll give a brief explaination from wiki, I just looked at it.

Basically there's this juice, CSF, that acts as a cushion between ur brain and the skull. It is produced in the choroid plexus. The infectious bacteria attacks the choroid plexus then it gets into the CSF. Once it gets in there, CSF is a pretty chill fluid, not so aggressive cuz phages(white blood cells) are rare in CSF. Also there's this little detector dudes called immunoglobulins(antibody).
How phage and antibody works is that the antibody is like the search dog of a cop, it binds itself to infectious particles. Then the phages sees, "OMG something's binded all together let's eat it." and it go ahead and eats it, thus removing the threats.
Now CSF lacks both of them so the bacteria can have a wild party in your brain and mess it up loyally. Inflammitory n crap, you basically have strokes and other shits and fucks up. :/

You should feel lucky that it wasn't you :p
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yubee
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States3826 Posts
November 15 2006 13:30 GMT
#3
there was an outbreak last winter at my school, several kids got bacterial meningitis but most were fine. one kid was in a coma for like 3 weeks though, he came very close to death.
mahnini
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States6862 Posts
November 15 2006 13:32 GMT
#4
Good thing our school made it mandatory to get vaccinated before we could dorm. I didn't even know that it was that serious of a disease.
the world's a playground. you know that when you're a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
brian
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States9616 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-11-15 13:46:06
November 15 2006 13:45 GMT
#5
a poor girl who graduated from my HS three years ago died of meningitis

(graduated three years ago, died last year)
baal
Profile Joined March 2003
10540 Posts
November 15 2006 14:06 GMT
#6
zomg meningitis is the new aids
Im back, in pog form!
danmooj1
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States1855 Posts
November 15 2006 14:17 GMT
#7
On November 15 2006 22:27 evanthebouncy~ wrote:

You should feel lucky that it wasn't you :p


yeah. but i feel so bad for them. the staff announced their names (they had to) cuz anyone else who had close contact with them might have gotten infected too. so everyone knows their name
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danmooj1
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States1855 Posts
November 15 2006 14:20 GMT
#8
the funny thing is that when they announced the symptoms, some of the people started having "headaches" and such =P
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Kochen
Profile Joined January 2005
Denmark154 Posts
November 15 2006 21:10 GMT
#9
I had meningitis when I was a baby. I have been told I was very close to death, but I survived with deafness on my left ear, and reduced hearing (is that the right way to say it?) on my right. I can only hear sounds below 2000 hz (normal is 13k-14k for an adult). It's very difficult to interpret words in foreign songs fx, and also in languages I have just started to learn. If I don't know the word the chance is very high for me to hear it wrong.
It also means I can't determine from which direction the sound comes from.
It has more complications than that, but the above is bugging me the most.
j0ehoe
Profile Joined September 2006
United States2705 Posts
November 15 2006 21:13 GMT
#10
On November 16 2006 06:10 Kochen wrote:
I had meningitis when I was a baby. I have been told I was very close to death, but I survived with deafness on my left ear, and reduced hearing (is that the right way to say it?) on my right. I can only hear sounds below 2000 hz (normal is 13k-14k for an adult). It's very difficult to interpret words in foreign songs fx, and also in languages I have just started to learn. If I don't know the word the chance is very high for me to hear it wrong.
It also means I can't determine from which direction the sound comes from.
It has more complications than that, but the above is bugging me the most.


ahhhh ive got hearing problems too, its so fucking annoying. mine were from severe ear infections and getting hit and breaking a bone in my ear tho. i got the bone fixed and its a little better, but i still have a hard time telling which direction sound is coming from =[

back to the topic....doesnt your school require menegitis shots? i thought every school does now?
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pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5094 Posts
November 15 2006 21:19 GMT
#11
thats sounds seriously shit, hope the two ppl are okay =(
damn never heard of this thing before, and i thot stroke was the worst ever...
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
brian
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States9616 Posts
November 15 2006 22:40 GMT
#12
On November 16 2006 06:13 j0ehoe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2006 06:10 Kochen wrote:
I had meningitis when I was a baby. I have been told I was very close to death, but I survived with deafness on my left ear, and reduced hearing (is that the right way to say it?) on my right. I can only hear sounds below 2000 hz (normal is 13k-14k for an adult). It's very difficult to interpret words in foreign songs fx, and also in languages I have just started to learn. If I don't know the word the chance is very high for me to hear it wrong.
It also means I can't determine from which direction the sound comes from.
It has more complications than that, but the above is bugging me the most.


ahhhh ive got hearing problems too, its so fucking annoying. mine were from severe ear infections and getting hit and breaking a bone in my ear tho. i got the bone fixed and its a little better, but i still have a hard time telling which direction sound is coming from =[

back to the topic....doesnt your school require menegitis shots? i thought every school does now?



no, they strongly reccommend it. i always thought there was a law or something such that they cant make it mandatory.
artofmagic
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
United States1951 Posts
November 15 2006 23:14 GMT
#13
there can be future side-effect for using menegitis shot.. i didnt take it because of that reason

kinda scare now - -
evolve or die
EAGER-beaver
Profile Joined March 2004
Canada2799 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-11-16 01:30:18
November 16 2006 01:22 GMT
#14
Oh shit son! I ain't got no spleen!!!

Seriously, if you're missing a spleen I think meningitis is the least of your concerns, lol.

EDIT:
Oh I just remembered, my mom had bacterial meningitis a few years back. She came home complaining of a horrible headache she had for 2 days so she went to the hospital and was diagnosed after a spinal tap. It was pretty scary, I remember her saying that when she came out of the coma her blood pressure was so low that she couldn't raise her head without passing out.
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
November 16 2006 08:11 GMT
#15
My physician tells me even the "shot" for meningitis only protects against about 50% of all cases TTTT_____TTTTT
SCNewb
Profile Joined June 2006
Canada2210 Posts
November 16 2006 08:13 GMT
#16
On November 15 2006 22:32 mahnini wrote:
Good thing our school made it mandatory to get vaccinated before we could dorm. I didn't even know that it was that serious of a disease.

Yeah....our school made us take them too. We saw the effects of the disease on a video and yeah......it was pretty horrible
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MaZza[KIS]
Profile Joined December 2005
Australia2110 Posts
November 16 2006 08:20 GMT
#17
This reminds me of the Ali G invterview with Posh Spice and Beckham.

Ali G: "I recently 'eard that you's got dis disease of d' head. It's called mingingitis" (he's pronouncing it as minger, which means slag. It's a deragatory term towards women and their appearance"

Posh: *laughs* "Yes I had meningitus"

having quoted that interview (and without hijacking the thread too much) there's also another very funny quote (from the same interview):

Ali G: "They say posh people talk like they've got plums in their mouth. How does your misses talk when she's got your plums in her mouth".

Beckham: *bewildered look*

Posh: "I think what he means to say is that you're not supposed to talk when you've got your mouth full"

hahahah.. she's a trooper. Handled Ali G quite well... oh and his comment to Beckham at the start "I know it's comic relief but you don't have to talk in that funny voice".

haha.. Beckham does have a gay voice.
I really wanted a bigger opponent, like Nate Marquardt, or King Neptune, or Zeus, or Zeus and Fedor, or Fedor on Zeus's shoulders, and they can both punch but only Zeus can kick.
CoralReefer
Profile Joined June 2004
Canada2069 Posts
November 16 2006 08:31 GMT
#18
On November 15 2006 22:27 evanthebouncy~ wrote:
Ha... if anyone wants to know how it works, I'll give a brief explaination from wiki, I just looked at it.

Basically there's this juice, CSF, that acts as a cushion between ur brain and the skull. It is produced in the choroid plexus. The infectious bacteria attacks the choroid plexus then it gets into the CSF. Once it gets in there, CSF is a pretty chill fluid, not so aggressive cuz phages(white blood cells) are rare in CSF. Also there's this little detector dudes called immunoglobulins(antibody).
How phage and antibody works is that the antibody is like the search dog of a cop, it binds itself to infectious particles. Then the phages sees, "OMG something's binded all together let's eat it." and it go ahead and eats it, thus removing the threats.
Now CSF lacks both of them so the bacteria can have a wild party in your brain and mess it up loyally. Inflammitory n crap, you basically have strokes and other shits and fucks up. :/

You should feel lucky that it wasn't you :p


phage are viruses that target bacteria

other than that nice explanation ;-)
i wouldn't want any bacteria in my brain juice
And this hot potato has vanished into thin air.
GaG[SharKy]
Profile Joined November 2006
New Zealand221 Posts
November 16 2006 08:34 GMT
#19
suppose its better having that, than having sti's or cancer
GaG[SharKy]
Profile Joined November 2006
New Zealand221 Posts
November 16 2006 08:34 GMT
#20
actually, forget i said that, i just read the article.... silly me, maybe not!
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