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SHE STANDS FOR US.
WELCOME BACK.
6:48 NOW.
THIS MORNING WE ARE STAYING
ON TOP OF A NATIONWIDE
OUTBREAK OF MENINGITIS THAT
IS LINKED TO TAINTED STEROID
INJECTIONS FROM A SPECIALITY
PHARMACY IN MASSACHUSETTS.
THEY HAVE BEEN 100 PEOPLE
INFECTED.
NINE PEOPLE HAVE DIED.
AND TWO OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE
FROM MICHIGAN.
GOOD MORNING, I AM JOINED
BY AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE
SPECIALIST WITH SPECTRUM
HEALTH MEDICAL GROUP.
THANK YOU.
YOU ARE WELCOME.
LET'S TALK ABOUT
MENINGITIS.
THERE ARE DIFFERENT FORM S.
WHAT DO YOU NEED SNEEZE WELL,
MENINGITIS IS INFLAMMATION OF
THE MEMBRANES AND THE FLUID
OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD
THAT IS USUALLY FROM
INFECTION.
THE MORE COMMON TYPES OF
MENINGITIS ARE FROM SEVERAL
TYPE OF BACTERIA, ONE IS
IMPORTANT TO IMMUNIZE
ADOLESCENT AND COLLEGE
STUDENTS BEFORE THEY GO
AWHICH TO COLLEGE.
VIRAL MENINGITIS ARE VIRAL
INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL
NERVOUS SYSTEM WOULD BE AN
EXAMPLE OF THAT WOULD BE WEST
NILE VA RUSS.
THE LATE SUMMER AND EARLY
FALL IS AN EPIDEMIC PERIOD OF
TIME FOR OTHER TYPES OF VIRAL
INFECTIONS.
INFECTION IN THE BRAIN AND
THE MEMBRANES AROUND THE
BRAIN IS REALLY VERY UNUSUAL.
THE PARTICULAR OUTBREAK WE
ARE LOOKING AT HERE IS
SOMETHING THAT IS RELATED
ONLY TO THE FACT THAT THERE
IS DIRECT INOCULATION OF THIS
MOLD TYPE OF FUNGUS INTO THE
AREA AROUND THE SPINAL CORD,
AROUND THOSE MEMBRANES AND
ALSO BEEN A CASE REPORTED IN
A JOINT BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE
MEDICATION IS PUT INTO JOINTS
TO REDUCE IN FLA FLATION.
DO PEOPLE IN WEST MICHIGAN
NEED TO BE AFRAID ABOUT THIS.
WELL, THE KEY POINT IS, IT IS
NOT THE PROCEDURE.
IT IS NOT THE DRUG, IT IS A
CONTAMINATED DRUG.
THERE ARE FOUR SITES IN THE
STATE OF MICHIGAN THAT HAVE
RECEIVED LOTS OF THIS
CONTAMINATED DRUG SO IF
SOMEONE HAS RECEIVED AN
INJECTION IF FROM ONE OF THE
FOUR SITES AND IN WEST
MICHIGAN THEN THEY WOULD NEED
TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT WHETHER
THAT INFECTION COULD HAVE
OCCURRED.
LET'S GO BACK TO BACTERIA
MEN FIT IS BECAUSE I BLIGHT
IS INTERESTING.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS
NEWER IN THE LAST FEW YEARS
ABOUT PUSHING FOR PARENTS TO
GET THEIR KIDS AND COLLEGE
STUDENTS A SHOT BEFORE THEY
OFF TO SCHOOL BECAUSE THIS IS
SOMETHING THAT CAN SPREAD
AUTOSLY.
TALK ABOUT THAT.
THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IN
ADOLESCENCE AND YOUNG ADULTS
MENINGITIS SOMETHING THAT OH
COARSE MORE PRECONDITION WITH
LYNN THAT AGE GROUP THAT.
COULD BE TRULY AN ACUTE AND
DEVASTATING INFECTION.
THERE ARE WAYS TO REDUCE THE
CHANCE OF THAT HAVING BEEN
TRANSMILTED AND WHAT CAN
OCCUR UNSITUATIONS WHERE
THERE IS A CLOSE CLUSTERING
OF PEOPLE AT RISKS.
LIKE A DORM.
COLLEGE DORMITORIES MEET
THAT REQUIREMENT.
THAT IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE
DEVASTATING INFECTION AND
SOMETHING THAT THE RISK OF
THAT CAN BE REDUCED BY BEING
SURE THE IMMUNIZATION HAS HE
CORED.
CALL THE DOCTOR AND HAVE YOUR
YOUNG ADULT SCHEDULED FOR