Breakthrough In The Treatment Of Bacterial Meningitis

Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 23:28 in Health & Medicine

It can take just hours after the symptoms appear for someone to die from bacterial meningitis. Now, after years of research, experts have finally discovered how the deadly meningococcal bacteria is able to break through the body's natural defense mechanism and attack the brain.

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