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Epic card · Science
Meningitis, an Epic card
Meningitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively called the meninges.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 184
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 850,000
Ranked #487 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Meningitis quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Meningitis card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Young children often exhibit only nonspecific symptoms, such as ______, drowsiness, or poor feeding.
Answer
irritability. Young children often exhibit only nonspecific symptoms, such as irritability, drowsiness, or poor feeding. From the Meningitis article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships. COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships 100 · Galaxy 91 · Anthony Fauci 88 · Meningitis 84 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci 1,400,000 · Boeing 747 1,100,000 · Meningitis 850,000 · COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships 42,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The most common symptoms are fever, intense headache, vomiting, neck stiffness, and occasionally photophobia.
- Other symptoms include confusion or altered consciousness, nausea, and an inability to tolerate loud noises.
- Young children often exhibit only nonspecific symptoms, such as irritability, drowsiness, or poor feeding.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Meningitis article was read about 850,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Meningitis
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Meningitis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : SVG by Mysid , original by SEER Development Team [1] , Jmarchn, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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