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meningitis
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  • As a little girl she was (hit by a car oh god i could never stand anything like that again like aileen but what if he's sick really sick cancer spinal meningitis leukemia brain tumor like john gunther's son or muscular dystrophy oh jeez kids his age get leukemia all the time radium treatments chemotherapy we couldn't afford anything like that but of course they just can't turn you out to die on the street can they and anyway he's all right all right all right you really shouldn't let yourself think) (Danny — ) (about aileen and) (Dannee — ) (that car) (Dannee — ) But Tony wasn't there.†  (source)
  • The fair was a "contagion," a "virus," a form of "progressive cerebral meningitis."†  (source)
  • Two other children died before they were thirty, Leonard in a car crash and Vernon of spinal meningitis.†  (source)
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  • This one has meningitis, and if he lives he might well be deaf or blind.†  (source)
    meningitis = infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord
  • His mom made him get some shot to, like, prevent meningitis.†  (source)
  • 'It's meningitis,' he called out emphatically, waving the others back.†  (source)
  • Everyone else thinks I had a mild case of viral meningitis.†  (source)
  • "Because of John," I said softly, referring to the child who'd died of meningitis when he was four.†  (source)
  • "What is the mechanism/pathophys of acute hearing loss associated with meningitis?" one wrote.†  (source)
  • At age three, she contracted severe meningitis, and in her frantic mother's eyes, never emerged whole after the illness.†  (source)
  • Eventually a neurologist told me that a strain of flu that winter had left many people with viral meningitis.†  (source)
  • I told them doctors were not miracle workers, but when a little girl in my ward died of meningitis, only the severe look of the attending doctor made me fight back my own tears.†  (source)
  • They didn't know what was wrong with her, so they did a spinal tap to make sure she didn't have meningitis.†  (source)
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