Delivering Mothers Become Ill With Meningitis After Birth
On Monday September 29, 2008 the associated press reported that two women became sick with meningitis after giving birth at Staten Island University Hospital; fortunately the two babies are healthy.
The city department of Health is investigating the cases. Hospital officials reported to the Staten Island Advance that the women’s spinal cords became infected after giving birth. The women are recovering after being placed in 24 hour isolation. Antibiotics are usually an effective treatment to meningitis which, left untreated, can be fatal.
Meningitis is a medical condition caused by inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. The inflammation is usually caused by an infection of the fluids in these protective membranes. Meningitis may develop in response to a number of causes, usually bacteria, viruses and other microbes, but also physical injury, cancer or certain drugs.
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