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In a paper in this month's PLoS Medicine , Sultan and colleagues from a climate research institute and an infectious diseases center in France looked at the relation between climate and meningitis outbreaks in Mali in West Africa, a region that every year between February and May sees devastating epidemics of meningococcal meningitis affecting up to 200,000 people.
A way of predicting these meningitis epidemics could be enormously useful.
As an example, in a recent report on the relationship between climate and outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis, the authors found that the timing of epidemics is highly predictable from information on the dynamics of a seasonal weather pattern, the Harmattan winds, but that the final epidemic size is not [1].
Meningococcal meningitis in western Africa shows recurrent seasonal patterns every year.
Indeed, the peak of pneumococcal meningitis incidence in the 3–6-mo age group (see Figure 2) suggests that the mechanism of protection against meningitis may differ from those against pneumonia and bacteremia.