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Immunization Spotlight: Meningitis

Viral Meningitis in Children
Most cases of viral meningitis occur in children under 5 years of age. Viral meningitis is usually mild and often goes away without treatment. It is much less serious than bacterial meningitis.
Ask The Doctor: Recurring Meningitis
Can you get meningitis more then once? Howard LeWine, M.D., is chief editor of Internet Publishing at Harvard Health Publications. He is recognized as an outstanding clinician and teacher and is a recipient of the Internal Medicine Teacher of the Year award at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. LeWine continues to practice Internal Medicine; most recently he became a hospitalist after practicing primary care for over 20 years.
Acute And Chronic Meningitis
Meningitis is the most common serious manifestation of infection of the central nervous system (CNS). Inflammatory involvement of the subarachnoid space with meningeal irritation leads to the classic triad of headache, fever and meningism, and to a pleocytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

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Human papilloma viruses (HPV) are a large group or related viruses, some of which play a part in the development Transmission electron micrograph of human papilloma virus, magnified 40,000 times. HPV is the cause of warts, including genital warts, and has been implicated in cervical cancer. ( Custom Medical Stock Photo . Reproduced by permission .) of cervical epithelial cancers. HPV is also associated with skin cancer, oral and anal cancers.
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