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Symptoms include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, a stiff neck, confusion, hallucinations and seizures. [6] Symptoms progress rapidly over around five days with characteristics of both meningitis and encephalitis, making it a type of meningoencephalitis. Death usually results within one to two weeks of symptom onset. [6] [1]
The disease may occur as long as two months after eating contaminated food. [citation needed] The symptoms vary with the infected person: [citation needed] High-risk people other than pregnant women: Symptoms can include fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions.
A violently ill patient with neck stiffness during the Texas meningitis epidemic of 1911 and 1912. Neck stiffness, stiff neck and nuchal rigidity are terms often used interchangeably to describe the medical condition when one experiences discomfort or pain when trying to turn, move, or flex the neck.
Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) DPT Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus: DRSP disease Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae disease DS Down syndrome: DSPS Delayed sleep phase syndrome: DTs Delirium tremens: DVD Developmental verbal dyspraxia: DVT Deep vein thrombosis
The severity can be variable with symptoms including reduction or alteration in consciousness, aphasia, headache, fever, confusion, a stiff neck, and vomiting. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Complications may include seizures , hallucinations , trouble speaking, memory problems , and problems with hearing .
Celine Dion, who on Thursday announced she's battling Stiff Person Syndrome, has been diagnosed with an incurable neurological disease so extremely rare that, according to the famed Cleveland ...
Meningovascular syphilis is often in the intermediate stage of neurosyphilis, typically presenting 5 to 12 years after infection. [6] It is due to inflammation of the blood vessels supplying the central nervous system, resulting in the death of brain tissue called ischemia. It may present as stroke or spinal cord injury. Signs and symptoms vary ...
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