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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

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Answered 9/23/2016

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