Bacterial Meningitis Bacterial meningitis has made a known name for itself throughout the world. The word meningitis means “an inflammation of the meninges, or the brain and spinal cord linings” (Hoff 64). Since the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, bacterial meningitis has been at epidemic proportions. Killing nearly 300 people every year in the United States, it has grown to be a feared disease (“What”). Since bacterial meningitis is such a deadly disease, people need to become …showed first 75 words of 1050 total…

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