epidemic meningitis

noun

1. another name for cerebrospinal meningitis

Example Sentences

In Burkina Faso, epidemic meningitis A has been eliminated because of the vaccine, and other countries are poised for the same success.

From Forbes

"We have herd immunity ... and we can also show that after introduction in Burkina Faso, we saw the lowest level of epidemic meningitis in 15 years."

From Reuters

Under the second head belong epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis; epidemic meningitis; malignant meningitis; typhoid meningitis, etc.

From Project Gutenberg

The pituitary type is more liable to epidemic meningitis and infantile paralysis, typhoid and scarlet fever.

From Project Gutenberg

It had as a distinctive symptom the well-known inguinal bubo, and there is no mention whatever, in the descriptions of it that have survived, of the tetanoid symptoms belonging to epidemic meningitis.

From Project Gutenberg