Monday, October 20, 2014

Ebola...and meningitis?! -Td Simons 2nd pd

This past Friday an 18-year-old student at San Diego State University passed away from meningitis. Sara Stelzer, a freshman at the university, started showing flu-like symptoms earlier that week, but when they diagnosed her it was too late. Meningitis is an infection of the brain and the spinal cord with symptoms that show three to seven days after exposure. The university is doing their best to inform the four hundred people they think she came in contact with while she was affected. Sara was a part of a sorority and also attended two fraternity parties earlier that week which adds people to the long list that could possibly be infected. Thankfully, this disease can only be shared through “close contact with respiratory secretions”, which means it cannot be spread with casual contact.
This article was written by Saundra Young from CNN on October 18. It’s tragic how these deadly diseases are suddenly becoming a large threat to our society. Living in this technologically advanced world we usually feel confident in the medications available to any diseases, but recently we have had quite the scare. First with Ebola throughout the Dallas metroplex and now with meningitis in southern California, these diseases seem to be slowly but steadily appearing and threatening. This time reminds me of the Black Plague in Europe, but obviously the death rate is nowhere close to it however every deadly plague starts somewhere (insert deep dramatic voice).


1 comment:

  1. I really hope this disease doesn't spread. We already have enough problems in this world we don't need another one Like this.

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