1. But a small percentage develop serious illness, including encephalitis and spinal meningitis.

2. Among the Bacteria susceptible to penicillinarethose throat, spinal meningitis, gas gangrene, and syphilis.

3. As a result of a concussion he contracted spinal meningitis and almost died.

4. Graham had been in frail health since suffering spinal meningitis in 1995.

5. Our second, Derrick, died at just two and a half years of age from spinal meningitis.