How easy is it to catch meningitis?!
Question:
How easy is it to catch meningitis?
You hear all these stories about how you can catch meningitus and how fast it kills you. Apparently it is contagiouse. But where do we catch it. From other people? from airporne pathogens? from surface germs? If we catch it from eachother and it kills quickly then how come we dont have meningitus outbreaks? How is it so easily caught yet so rare?
Answers:
There are two types of meningitis, bacterial and viral. Viral meningitis would be caught the way any other virus is, through the air and the bacterial usually with direct contact with a person who has it or an item that they have recently touched. I haven't ever heard stories about how fast meningitis kills people or how contagious it is. I have known 2 people in all my 60 yrs that have had it and both are fine now.