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“What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.”

Firsts Crosses Ears Mark Dollars Billions Vaccines Infection Meningitis

Author:Paul A. Offit

“Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination”

Years States Names United Behinds Cases United States Issues Mass Introduction Lurking Viral Polio Vaccinations Meningitis

Author:Viera Scheibner

“The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.”

Water Cold Moon Careful Shoulders Grass Mask Carrie Pregnant Bedroom Womb Handful Pregnant Women Cold Water Meningitis

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of what - the problem that [Buckminster Fuller] perceived as being the cause of his daughter's death and meningitis. I mean how you get from your daughter dying from meningitis to making a car with three wheels and saying that it's like a bird and a fish. That really is amazing.”

Way Mean Whole Problem Hands Three Causes Dying Car Fit Bird Daughter Fishes Solve Wheels Attempting Our Daughter Your Daughter Buckminster Fuller Meningitis

Author:Jonathon Keats

“We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.”

World Has Beens Kids Poor Rich Huge Cold Creating Research Chains Funding Alliances Delivery Vaccines Meningitis

Author:Bill Gates

“Menoeceus is a great name. (Astrid) For an old man or a feminine hygiene product. Not for my son. And next time I get to name the kid and it won’t be something that sounds like meningitis. (Zarek) You keep that up and next time you’ll be the one birthing it, and don’t mess with me, bucko, I have connections in that department. A pregnant man is not an impossibility in my neighborhood. (Astrid)”

“Is it not meningitis?”

Dying Last Words Meningitis

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Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

“I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.”

Three Childhood Conditions Serious Months Illness Three Months Meningitis

Author:Tammy Baldwin

“Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.”

Influence Example Disease Climate Including Sensitive Dimensions Temperature Epidemics Parasites Mosquitoes Malaria Outbreaks Rainfall Humidity Meningitis

Author:Margaret Chan

“Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.”

Worry Taken Healthy Realising Symptoms Ache Flu Away From You Overlooked Hypochondriac Meningitis

Author:Petra Stunt