I read an article on line frm the Visalia area, about a child who died from a disease with no cure, wht is it?

Question

the article said the child died and that this was an epidimic. Now I can't find out anything about it. It was identified by some initials. M something and at the time I looked up the initials and it pulled up malaria. I am worried that the health people and politicians are hiding from us the extent of this problem. No antibiotic can help with this and when you get it you die very quickly. Within two or three days. I am afraid the community is hiding this to keep from having a panic among the population here.

Answer 1

i am looking online and am finding nothing helpful. any more details?

malaria doesn't kill you quickly. and malaria is very rare in the US.

the only thing that comes to mind that occurs mainly in children and adolescents in epidemics is meningitis. the bacterial form of meningitis is very deadly and progresses rapidly from a flu-like illness with a sore,stiff neck to sepsis and death in a matter of days (sometimes hours). there is a vaccine for this type of meningitis though.

i hope this helps. if not, throw out a few more details and i will try to help!

Answer 2

Why worry about a very rare disease that kills one or two people, when there are lots of diseases that kill thousands of peopleevery day?

For example, cigarette smoking disorder causes huge numbers of deaths every year.