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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Epilepsy / February 2007Cure infections to prevent epilepsy, say doctors (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
Twenty five per cent of all epilepsy occurs due to infections such as tuberculosis, bacterial meningitis, malaria and cysticercosis. The second day of the International Symposium on Epilepsy focused on treating these common infections and preventing epilepsy. "Such infections can lead to seizures which can consist of a single seizure or can go on to become a chronic epilepsy," said Dr S ... === Just one of Today's Top 10 Consumer News Stories: http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=epilepsy On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:02:10 -0500, admin wrote: > Twenty five per cent of all epilepsy occurs due to infections such as > tuberculosis, bacterial meningitis, malaria and cysticercosis. The [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Just one of Today's Top 10 Consumer News Stories: > http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=epilepsy YUK! Sounds as if Epilepsy could cause you to die within the week if you had one of these infections! Anyway, interesting story, but personally, I've never suffered any of these here in the UK, and most of us are inoculated against them all at a very young age. My neuro' also told me mine's purely idiosyncratic, so I guess I'm one of the majority too, although I couldn't speak for everybody on the newsgroup! Sofie  SignaturePlease visit my deviantART page: http://sofen.deviantart.com/
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