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Meningitis and encephalitis: diseases that attack the brain.
Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication
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October 1, 1994|
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Danene Byrd is hearing-impaired--but she is lucky. Danene survived meningitis when she was 16 months old. She is now an eleventh grader with a "B" average at Samuell High School in Dallas, Texas. Others, however, are not so lucky.
Meningitis is usually a bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord (meninges). It affects thousands of children each year; 5 percent to 10 percent die from the disease. When it isn't fatal, it may leave permanent brain damage in the form of mental retardation, seizures, paralysis, or deafness.
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