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[quote=Anonymous]This was clearly bacterial, viral meningitis is much milder and doesn't kill anyone quickly like this.  The vaccine (A or B) is against meningococcal meningitis, which is a bacterial meningitis and is the classic very very serious one that kids living in groups get (army recruits, college students classically).  Older patients can get pneumococcal meningitis, and Hemophilus can also cause meningitis rarely (but covered by the HIB vaccine).  So am almost certain this will be meningococcal, and the treatment of the other students who had contact with her with antibiotics means that they assumed this was meningococcal as well.  The A vs B issue is two major substrains of meningococcus, and that is what I was referring to that they likely don't know yet but should very soon.  That will determine how much risk anyone else is at, if A, likely not much, most college students vaccinated already and if not, easy to get them vaccinated since A vaccine is available. If B, then the issue of whether this is going to be another outbreak that will require again getting the FDA to allow vaccination of the college community with the B vaccine from Europe  [/quote]

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