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Meningitis is a neurological condition in which the meninges, or the covering of the spinal cord and brain, become infected. The most common cause of meningitis is a viral infection, according to ...

lynni commented on Elizabeth Stannard Gromisch's post The Long-Term Complications of Bacterial Meningitis

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How can you tell if the headache you’ve got is just a headache or something more? Most headaches are harmless but sometimes they can be a sign of something serious. Bacterial meningitis is one ...

lynni commented on Joanna Karpasea-Jones' post Dangerous Headaches: Bacterial Meningitis

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How can you tell if the headache you’ve got is just a headache or something more? Most headaches are harmless but sometimes they can be a sign of something serious. Bacterial meningitis is one ...

lynni commented on Joanna Karpasea-Jones' post Dangerous Headaches: Bacterial Meningitis

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When our son was an infant, I remember diligently storing his immunization schedule card in the file cabinet, and having it ready for the nurse whenever he received his next scheduled round of ...

lynni commented on Kristan Appleford's post Immunizations Don't Stop in Elementary School

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So much to choose for under the Christmas tree, but how about making sure your children are up to date on vaccines? I didn't know about the vaccine for meningitis for my college-aged son, and I ...

lynni commented on lynni's post Giving the gift of health for Christmas -- are your child's vaccines up to date

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So much to choose for under the Christmas tree, but how about making sure your children are up to date on vaccines? I didn't know about the vaccine for meningitis for my college-aged son, and I ...

Giving the gift of health for Christmas -- are your child's vaccines up to date

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There’s a saying that “what you don’t know won’t hurt you. It’s not true. What I didn’t know hurt me. It cost me the life of my son. My story begins on March 25, 1998. It was the day our ...

lynni commented on Anonymous' post Losing a Child to Meningitis, a Vaccine-Preventable Disease