How to Use meningitis in a Sentence

meningitis

noun

• She was diagnosed with spinal meningitis.
• Currently, two brands of meningitis B vaccines are available.
  — Michele Munz, The Seattle Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• Viral meningitis is inflammation of the tissue covering the brain and spinal cord.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• In rare cases, severe illness, including meningitis or encephalitis, or even death, can occur.
  — Susan Demar Lafferty, Daily Southtown, 21 July 2017
• In fact, a 3-week-old baby recently died from viral meningitis caused by HSV-1.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 31 July 2017
• An additional six people are being evaluated for the disease that can lead to kidney damage, liver failure and meningitis.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 13 Oct. 2017
• Most recover from the virus in a few weeks, although some can develop serious complications including meningitis and hearing loss.
  — Author: Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Aug. 2017
• Meningococcal disease, the bacterial form of meningitis, is a serious infection of the meninges, the membrane covering the brain.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 10 July 2017
• One of the nonprofit’s leading accomplishments is a vaccine that has nearly eliminated a deadly type of meningitis across much of North Africa.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• The brain damage caused by the meningitis led to seizures.
  — al.com, 18 July 2019
• Dawn didn't need to wait for the lab results to recognize the signs of meningitis.
  — Jason Dearen, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
• But others, such as the new shot against meningitis, don’t.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2020
• Coming off that stretch of dates, the vocalist was hit with a bout of meningitis, which led to a loss of hearing.
  — Dave Gil De Rubio, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2018
• Early versions of the vaccine were linked to aseptic meningitis, or swelling of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
  — Blake Essig, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
• Bacterial meningitis is the swelling of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord, causing headaches, fever and a stiff neck.
  — Jane Morice, cleveland.com, 31 Dec. 2017
• One of her brothers died of meningitis a few years later.
  — Time, 1 Feb. 2020
• Viral meningitis is like colds and the flu in that most people recover on their own in a week or so.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 1 Feb. 2023
• Most troubling, the snails can carry rat lungworm, which is known to cause meningitis.
  — al, 8 July 2022
• Joan was 6 when her younger sister, Barbara Joy, died of spinal meningitis at 3.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• Her actions in that instance likely saved lives—the meningitis B was contained and the Gram stain later proved to be wrong.
  — Cody Delistraty, WSJ, 3 May 2021
• Bacterial meningitis took the life of Rylen who was a little over a year old.
  — Houston Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2020
• Treatment options involved are based on the cause of meningitis.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 9 Aug. 2022
• There, a spinal tap led to a diagnosis of meningitis caused by Valley fever.
  — Fox News, 3 Feb. 2023
• They were compared to others who were given a meningitis vaccine or a saline shot.
  — Danica Kirka, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2020
• The country is still severed and aching from the Civil War, and Kidd reports about the 97 souls lost in just two months because of a meningitis epidemic.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2021
• That's what happened with the meningitis B vaccine for infants.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
• Pfizer has maintained that the children died of meningitis.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
• Bacterial meningitis causes swelling of the tissues around the brain and spinal cord.
  — oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2019
• The bacteria is known to cause severe, and often fatal, meningitis and sepsis in newborns, according to the CDC.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• Many of the patients in the Matamoros outbreak were not evaluated and treated for a month or more after the onset of meningitis symptoms, such as chronic headache, light and sound sensitivity and fever.
  — Barbara Mantel, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024