•A very serious bacterial infection, meningococcal meningitis infects the membranes around the brain and the spinal fluid.
•It can spread throughout the body and be rapidly lethal.
•It is treatable with antibiotics, but often damages too rapidly to treat.
•About 1 in 5 to 10 Americans are asymptomatic carriers of this bacteria. About 1 in 100,000 Americans contract this disease annually and between 1 to 10 in 10 million die of it annually.