My name is Sean Cononie, founder of The Cosac Foundation and The Homeless Voice. We now have founded Educating People About Meningitis Inc because I almost died from being misdiagnosed with the flu when in fact I had bacterial meningitis. Because I was left with many disabilities, I researched the disease and found that many children and adults have died because of misdiagnosis, just as I had been. Many doctors do not think a person has meningitis, because there are not that many cases per year. Figures range from 10,000 to 80,000 cases per year.