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Can you be a silent carrrier of bacterial meningitis longer than one year?
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Doubt it: Think of your "carrier centers"-the nasal passages & upper airway/throat as a hotel. Germs check in, stay for a while & leave. Some, including those causing meningitis can cause infection or just pass along in your saliva and end up on a doorknob or banister. Many will come back.The only germ we know to persist in prolonged carriage is group A strep, which often doesn't affect carriers.
Answered 5/9/2017
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