Margaret Chan

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

Chinese Public Servant

Amy Purdy

I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

American Actress

Anthony Fauci

Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.

American Scientist

Petra Stunt

Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

British Designer

That's the problem with bacterial meningitis: it progresses really fast. You think you have the flu, and they say within 15 hours it's severely deadly - for sure within the first 24 hours - but even the first 15 hours.

John Lydon

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

English Musician

Stan Mikita

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

Canadian Athlete

Paul Johnson

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.

British Journalist

Tammy Baldwin

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

American Politician

David Hewson

Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.

British Author

Meningitis is a serious health issue, usually requiring urgent medical attention.

Medical Condition

Used mostly by healthcare professionals, may not be understood by everyone.

Technical Term

Imply urgent or severe health situations, not used for mild conditions.

Severity Implications

 and 700 more have contracted meningitis. I mean, these examples are crazy, right? When did we come to live in a world where these types of typos, common errors, this do-your-best attitude or just good enough was acceptable? At some point, we've stopped valuing perfection, and now, these are the type of results that we get.

We should aim for...

 was injured in Nigeria to London for emergency reconstructive surgery on mrs. Madhu pair for instance who was comatose with meningitis and reported in a rural area of Nigeria the speed of life for her was the one hour that it took us to move her from that war area of Nigeria

Speed of Life PIPE Ola...

 that was a good sample and what is it that you're specifically looking for with these micro bacteria for example the agent that can cause tuberculosis him often that's a very common germ that causes infection in the lungs it can cause severe problems you and meningitis

Getting a Whale Breath...

 so if there's an outbreak anywhere in the world of yellow fever or of things like cholera or meningitis and now Ebola, we have vaccines that are available to do that. And the last thing we are trying to do is build the health systems out to deliver these vaccines,

The quest for the...

 that ultimately infected tens of thousands of people worldwide. Meningitis is the inflammation of the meninges, three tissue layers responsible for protecting the brain and spinal cord. What makes meningitis so dangerous compared to other diseases

Why is meningitis so...

 whether this scene is safe but it's also important to remember to bring it back to the medical there is no such thing as zero risk uh children can and do die every year of influenza they die of meningitis so this is not only about this virus

Stopping Pandemics, An...

 I was in the hospital on life support with less than a two percent chance of living. It wasn't until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis,

Amy Purdy: Living beyond...

 This bacterium used to infect young infants causing bloodstream infections, pneumonia, meningitis, death or permanent disability. As a young pediatrician, I saw a few cases.

The new science of...

 I was repeatedly bacterial meningitis, fibromyalgia, you name it. They couldn't figure it out. And if I'm standing here in front of you today, it's because I owe my life

The hidden role informal...

 there are more cases of meningitis and complete kidney failure