Symptoms of meningococemnea?

Question

This is one kind of fatal desease. Please help.

Answer 1

General Discussion

Meningococcemia is a rare infectious disease characterized by upper respiratory tract infection, fever, skin rash and lesions, eye and ear problems, and possibly a sudden state of extreme physical depression (shock) which may be life-threatening without appropriate medical care. There are two forms of meningococcemia. Fluminant meningococcemia develops very rapidly and is more severe than chronic meningococcemia, which has a waxing and waning course.

Resources

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Answer 2

This is the term for a condition where the bacterium that causes meningitis becomes fulminant and spread throughout the body. You won't see many things that make a person more acutely ill in a very serious way. It is not a subtle condition with vague aches and pains or mild fever. The skin blisters, the fevers are 105 degrees, and the person is moribund, meaning near comatose.

Briant Burke, MD
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