01:447:390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: New England Compounding Center, Meningococcal Disease, Analgesic
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Can be complicated with other viral infection: mumps, measles, herpesviruses, influenza, west nile, ebola, ex. Nurse got sick with ebola, got better, but then got meningitis because she had ebola earlier. Spinal injection of painkiller from a new england compounding center (take painkiller, dissolve in. 377 cases, 28 deaths diluent so it"s ready for doctors inject). Turns out that the diluent was not sterile and was growing fungi. This contaminated painkiller was being injected into patients and people were getting infected with meningitis because the fungal spores were delivered right into the spinal cord. Meningococcal meningitis: often occurs in epidemics, usually in closed populations, older school-age children and young adults, incidence has decreased in recent years due to widespread vaccination in susceptible populations. Outbreaks in princeton and uc santa barbara- because the vaccination for that specific strain had not been approved yet (b0?) Viruses and respiratory infections: mmr, chicken pox- vzv, influenza, hepatitis.