If you'e always wanted to meet the Dalai Lama (no, seriously!) the Meningitis Trust has the cure for your Tibetan Blues. Register for £199 and they'll help you fundraise the rest. If hiking ten days through the frozen mountains is a bit more than you can manage, you can spend five days cycling the length of the Nile, or just three days cycling from London to Paris. Or can we show you something in a trekking the Great Wall? You do go outside, don't you? Why be pedestrian about it when you can experience the stuff that dreams are made of, and help fight killer meningitis at the same time? [GT]
Meningitis Trust Overseas Trek & Cycle
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Headache is a symptom of meningitis, a swelling of the tissue surrounding the brain and spinal column. Usually caused by a virus, this condition can cause death. Fast intervention for bacterial meningitis through the use of intravenous antibiotics is called for. Viral meningitis is usually treated with bed rest, fluids and pain medication, with most patients recovering and showing little of no after effects in about two weeks.
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