In the Blink of an Eye The Deadly Story of Epidemic Meningitis /

• Main Author: Artenstein, Andrew W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.

Describing more than two centuries of epidemic meningitis, In the Blink of an Eye introduces a deadly and frightening bacterial infection of the brain—one that afflicts healthy children and young adults in dramatic fashion, often changing or taking lives in just hours or days.  Meningococcal meningi...

Table of Contents:

• Origins
• The Art and Science of Germs
• A Singular Disease
• A Very Mortal Disease
• Early Approaches at Therapy
• Antibiotics and Survival of the Fittest
• A Brief History of Vaccines
• That Soulble Specific Substance
• Towards a Vaccine
• Success for Half
• The Future of a Killer.