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After a person had bacterial meningitis and was treated, what are the long term effects?
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Bacterial meningitis: If the treatment was started early and a cure was obtained then the long term effects can be minimal if nothing - the effects are really based on how severe the infection was at the time of treatment
Answered 9/23/2016
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