West Africa: Ebola Rounds 1 now 2, Malaria, and now Meningitis

West Africa now faces a Meningitis threat with a serious shortage of vaccines. This disease is a known child killer.

Although Meningitis regularly occurs there, an uptick in the disease has left 800 dead so far this year with 12,000 people infected in Nigeria and Niger alone.

[link to www.businessinsider.com]

With one roll-out disease after another, one can only speculate why this particular area of the world seems so plagued. Malnourishment, poverty, lack of a responsive health care system, and loss of many health care professionals last year do play an enormous part, I know. But a this point, if I were West African I might be feeling like a lab rat.