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Is meningitis from lyme disease contagious?
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Lyme meningitis: The short answer is no. More information is available at: http://www.Merckmanuals.Com/home/print/brain_spinal_cord_and_nerve_disorders/meningitis/chronic_meningitis.Html.
Answered 9/25/2012
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Both rare: Lyme is from an agent acquired from tick bite. The bite causes a local irritation and then progresses to a more total body invilvement, . Meningitis is very rare. The tick can infect others, but the sick patient is not contagious.
Answered 2/28/2014
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No: Lyme disease is not contagious from person to person and thus, a meningeal manifestation of lyme disease is not transmissible from person to person by casual contact.
Answered 12/1/2015
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