MENINGITIS is suspected to be the cause of death of comedian Olga Syahputra can affect anyone. Moreover, there are several factors that can increase a person's risk of developing meningitis.
Referring to health sites Webmd.com, the following eight factors that can increase a person's risk of developing meningitis:
1. Genetics. Some people may inherit the tendency to be exposed to meningitis. If they are associated with organisms that can cause infection, they will easily become infected.
2. Men. More men than women are affected by meningitis.
3. crowded living conditions. People in the camps, daycare, school, and college dorms are more likely to get meningitis.
4. Exposure to insects or rodents. People who live or visit the area where insects or rodents carry germs will be susceptible to this disease.
5. Do not get immunized. People who do not get a shot for mumps, Hib disease, or pneumococcal infection before the age of two years are more likely to get meningitis.
6. People who are elderly and have not also get the pneumococcal vaccine is more likely to develop meningitis.
7. Do not have a spleen, which is part of the immune system, and that works well, make a person susceptible to meningitis.
8. Travel to areas where meningitis is common. For example, people who are traveling to the "meningitis belt" in sub-Saharan Africa, had to get a shot of meningococcal.
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