Bacterial Meningitis Essay

“ Bacterial meningitis affects over 4,000 people and causes 500 deaths in the U.S. each year. 6,000 cases of pneumococcal meningitis are reported each year in the U.S. Meningococcal meningitis infects about 2,600 people in the U.S. each year.” What this text is saying is that bacterial meningitis is really harmful and can lead to deaths around the world, mainly affecting young children and the elderly. Bacterial meningitis harms and affects many people who are infected by the disease and is very severe when they are diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. They are really harmful and can lead to brain damage affecting the whole body because the brain is getting affected negatively. This disease is spread by Airborne, direct and indirect contact transmission. Airborne contact is pathogens in the air floating around waiting to infect a person with the disease that they carry, direct contact is when a disease is spread through person to person, and indirect contact is spread when an …show more content…
Some after effects that are caused by bacterial meningitis are memory loss, residual headaches, deafness or hearing problems, learning difficulties, loss of sight, etc. Those are really horrible things that the bacterial meningitis can do to the body of the host and that is the after effect of the disease after the disease is treated and/or cured. The after effects may be temporary, however they may also be permanent, physical or emotional. Not all people who were diagnosed with bacterial meningitis were left with after effects of the disease because getting after effects depend on the type of illness that the person is infected by. Although many people that suffer from bacterial meningitis are left with after effects, only 15% are left with that after effect forever and it is permanent and the other percentage, that is not permanent because after a while the after effect of the disease goes