Neisseria Meningitis Case

An investigation was necessary to find the cause of the outbreak, and how to stop it from continuing to spread. The campus clinic was interested in testing the following nine patients: Sue, Jill, Anthony, Wanda, Maggie, Maria, Arnie, Marco, and Alvin. All of the students have similar symptoms and agreed to being tested except for Alvin.

Mary Mallon was a victim when she was quarantined for the first time. Science had not been developed enough yet to prove and explain what healthy carriers

Neisseria meningitidis is a fastidious, aerobic, and encapsulated gram-negative diplococcus which infects humans via droplet transmission to and from mucosal surfaces in the nasopharyngeal region. Only humans can be infected with N. meningitidis and the disease manifests in children under two years of age and in young adults. N. meningitidis can be found as normal regional flora of the nasopharynx in some individuals, but when it causes infection leads to meningitis and occasionally septicaemia. The major symptoms of N. meningitidis infection include a stiff neck, high fever, photophobia, confusion, cephalgia and emesis. If the patient’s condition has worsened causing sepsis, they can present with a haemorrhagic rash which is indicative of

This podcast looks at the idea behind the patient zero concept. It is the idea that something or someone is the beginning of a disease or even possibly an idea. They begin the podcast by talking about arguably the most famous patient zero, Mary Mallon, commonly referred to as “Typhoid Mary.” The apartment of public health thought the typhoid breakout was originally due to something being “dirty” near the area, but later pieced together outbreaks going back years and found that all the people affected had the same cook. Mary Mallon did not have or experience any symptoms of the disease, but was a healthy carrier (asymptomatic carrier) who spread the disease through a dish with raw peaches. After being detained by police, she was moved to a small island for quarantine for three years. Many moral and legal concerns were raised during Mary’s captivity and she was eventually released with the promise to never cook again. Sadly, five years later, after losing track of Mary, another typhoid case occurred in a maternity hospital that Mary happened to be cooking. She was sent back to the island for the rest of her life.

There are many things that could have contributed to all those kids and the chaperones getting sick. Things that could have caused the outbreak are the food handlers not following the correct procedures.Cooking the food enough and having the correct temperature are some of the procedures that the food handlers could have messed up to cause the outbreak.

It traveled across the United States in weeks, the globe in only a few months, and it could have a rapid course, progressing from early symptoms to death in a day. The epidemic had two other crucial characteristics. It did not respect the epidemiologic rules taught by influenza outbreaks ignoring risk factors such as age and localized outbreaks. Its symptoms were gruesome: Your face turns a dark brownish purple. You start to cough up blood. Your feet turn black. A blood-tinged saliva bubbles out of your mouth. You die--by drowning. It was a mystery with no known origin, no known etiology, and no treatment. From its extraordinary ability to reach into everyday life in every nation to the special trains to carry away the dead, the epidemic is a story of mythic proportions. Along with these colossal attributes, it is also given, in popular thought, the power of

An outbreak of HPS in The Four Corners area of the southwestern United States occurred when a Navajo man, who was healthy previously, became ill with symptoms of shortness of breath and died very rapidly. The man’s fiancée died a few days earlier with the same symptoms. Dr. James Cheek of the Indian Health Service stated: “"I think if it hadn't been for that initial pair of people that became sick within a week of each other, we never would have discovered the illness at all". (Tracking a Mystery Disease)

Because of the rapid circulation of this “virus”, it was inevitable that Valley High School’s own students would become exposed to such an ailment.

Both the brothers and Tabot experienced diseases from the same strand of Influenza which can be noted from the difference in time between the three contracting the virus. The Chef and Doctor however may have been infected by an evolved strand of the disease known as H1N1 or swine flu. The evidence that they were infected by a controlled evolved strand can be noted when the pigs start wheezing in the text. “The Surgeon’s Mate brought to my attention a coughing ague in our last remaining pigs” it is later found out that the chef was affected “...I immediately ordered them brought back out of the men’s tent, and everything opened to a cleansing wind, but too late. The cook Setterly already exhibits similar respiratory ailings and soon complained of aches and pains.” This information gives light to the fact that the Chef may have been affected to a new strain of influenza through the pigs. Assuming that the chef already had immunity to the Influenza strain, a new evolved strand could have penetrated his biological defences and inevitably infected him. H1N1 and Influenza are not that much different with patients experiencing identical symptoms in both cases of the virus, however because of lack of immunity to the new strain the chef was affected and was later transferred to the Doctor because of his lack of immunity toward N1H1, this fact however is not helped by nature

Close your eyes and picture this... it was the first day of school and an eight-year-old girl walked into her classroom. She was coughing every second. A cough sounded so terrifying and so asthmatic. Her name was Lucia and she had red marks on her forehead that looked like she scratched her head constantly. She sat next to another girl named Sarah who after coming in contact with, also began to cough repeatedly. Then Sarah was suddenly absent from school the following day. Sarah had a 104-degree fever. Sarah had red irritating marks around her whole body. Sarah felt like she lived in a sauna everywhere she went. This wasn’t right how this illness spread to Sarah. It wasn’t right how Sarah contracted this illness. Is it possible to say that

A two month old African American child was admitted to a local clinic in Bakersfield, California with a cough, fever, and occasional night sweats. The physician diagnosed him with influenza B virus and sent him home with some acetaminophen(brand name Tylenol) to help with the symptoms. At home, the boy progressively got worse so after three days, the child was readmitted to the clinic. The physician had a blood test and a sputum test sent to a microbiologist for examination as the doctor believed that the child was infected by another microbial pathogen. After examining the blood and sputum, it became clear that the child had an infection that was much more dangerous than influenza B.

Meningococcal Meningitis is the infection and inflammation of the meninges. Newborns and infants are at greatest risk for contracting bacterial meningitis with Neisseria meningitides being the typical pathogen in the majority of children age 2 months through 12 years (London, Ladewig, Ball, Bindler, & Cowen, 2011). There is a mortality rate of 10% for children who develop meningitis from this particular bacterium (Muller, 2013).

It’s a weird sickness and spreading around town. In order to evict tje disease we could have to go around giving shots. If they are too late they cannot lie about the people that weren’t disenfected they would have to infuriate and mabye get fired. When. They estimated how many people have the epidemic found out that was about 100 people. “Wow 100 people” ,said Cody

Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges, membranes that surround the brain. This can extend as far as infecting the cerebral spinal fluid on top of causing the tissue to swell. Meningitis comes in two major forms; bacterially and virally. However, having bacterial meningitis is much more severe than viral meningitis. There is a lot more danger in having a bacterial infection within the brain than a viral infection within the brain. What makes bacterial meningitis so lethal is that “even when the disease is diagnosed early and adequate treatment is started, 5% to 10% of patients die, typically within 24 to 48 hours after the onset of symptoms. Left untreated, up to 50% of cases may die, (6) or there

A potential outbreak was first reported on September 15 vie a telephone call at 6:00 am. At first, there was only a possibility that it was an outbreak when it was reported that 30 individuals were home sick, when usually it was 4 out of 200 employees. It was not until after interviewing five of the sick individuals over the phone that there was little doubt that it was an outbreak, as their only recent interactions between themselves were during the company’s dinner at Lou’s Center City Restaurant on the 14th at 6:00 pm, shows similar symptoms of cramps and diarrhea, and became sick between 2 am and 8 am the next day. The interviews were completed between 9:00 am to 10:00 am.