Meningitis Research Paper

half of Africa and ranges from Senegal to Ethiopia. There are high rates in incidence and prevalence in these areas in Africa; these places are called hyper epidemic. These areas suffer from meningitis for various reason, they have contaminated food, water, and soil. They also have a lack of health care, they aren’t able to get enough vaccines to cover everyone in their countries; which leads to more of a spread of different types of meningitis. There is always a struggle in less developed where meningitis s most common and it makes it very difficult to cure the disease as it keeps speeding more and more throughout Africa increasing the range of the meningitis belt.
Epidemiology:
The demographic groups that are affected is South America, Asia, …show more content…
There is also a type of meningitis that you can get form contaminated food, water, and soil like the parasitic meningitis. We also have the fungal form and the chronic form which is transmitted from having the fungal form. Than we have the viral meningitis which is a virus transmitted from people to people virally. These germs that are spread through these different ways of transmission can be highly contagious. You cannot get this bacteria simply by breathing the air of someone who has meningitis; normally people who do get this disease is the cause of certain risk factors. Some risk factors are having a weak immune system and having trauma in the head. There is also some cases where people can get bacterial meningitis when they have long contact with a person who is ill and catch the …show more content…
Then there is an invasion of the bloodstream through submucosa. In the blood stream they travel towards the brain and spine, specifically the meninges or body fluid. Then within the blood vessels they become leaky and allow fluid to infect fighting particles that enter the brain. The brain will than becomes swollen, and blood flow to the brain is decreased. If no immediate medical attention is received than the victim will die.
In most cases meningitis causes an infectious agent that colonizes and localizes itself in other places within the host (person). Places that the meningitis can infect from colonizing and localizing is on the skin, respiratory tract, nasopharynx and the GI tract (gastrointestinal). These organisms attack than invade the submucosa and avoid any type of defense that we have in our body to protect that area it is trying to invade. They also began to invade the bloodstream and one of the most common modes of subsequent seeding is meningococcal, cryptococcal, and

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