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A member asked:
Can you only get meningitis if the person you're around has it? two kids sneezed in my face/around me at daycare but hes not sick..should i worry?
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Many other ways: Meningitis can be caused by infections transmitted by human contact (eg. Meningococcal or pneumococcal meningitis), others can be spread by mosquitoes (eg. West nile, eastern equine encephalitis), or are the result of the reactivation of an past infection (like herpes meningitis). Unless you start to get a fever, headache and neck stiffness or pain when you nod your head, don't worry.
Answered 6/28/2014
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Acquire infection: If the child who sneezed in your face did not carry an infections disease, do not worry. If you find that the child was found to have meningitis, contact your doctor immediately. Even if that child is found to have and infectious disease contact your doctor.
Answered 8/30/2013
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