What causes brain inflammation? I’m guessing rare disease, but dropping a kid? Is the duration of inflammation a factor?
Meningitis isn’t super rare. Various infections. Children don’t have a fully developed immune system.
So many dead children contributed to this study. I can’t imagine having to be a researcher on this.
Context from article:
> comparing individuals who had died while experiencing inflammation to those who had died as a result of an accident.
Perhaps one can imagine a researcher who knows many children die every day, uselessly, and it filled them with hope to honor those children, by leveraging their tragedy to try to improve the future.