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Just randomly, anyone know which is the more deadly...
Bacterial or viral meningitis?
Just a really random question with no real reason behind it...
Just a really random question with no real reason behind it...
Reply 1
Bacterial.
Reply 2
^ 
no real reason? :/
no real reason? :/
Reply 3
The Solitary Reaper
Bacterial.
How come it's bacterial? I thought bacterial infections could be treated with antibiotics and viruses were much harder to treat? Or does this have nothing to do with how deadly it is e.g. are we asuming that both are left untreated?
Reply 4
dumbdunc
OP
Yeah that's what I thought...(bacterial)
Hence why I wondered if it was right.
And there is no real reason its just all the leaflets etc. in the nurse' office at school seem to be about bacterial and I wondered if that was because it is more common, or more dangerous.
Hence why I wondered if it was right.
And there is no real reason its just all the leaflets etc. in the nurse' office at school seem to be about bacterial and I wondered if that was because it is more common, or more dangerous.
Reply 5
11
Moon_Wolf
How come it's bacterial? I thought bacterial infections could be treated with antibiotics and viruses were much harder to treat? Or does this have nothing to do with how deadly it is e.g. are we asuming that both are left untreated?
assuming both are treated, though you don't really treat viral meningitis other than to remove symptoms.. bacterial meningitis is still more dangerous.
Reply 6
Meningitis isn't a particular disease, it's an infection of the meninges. It just so happens that the bacteria that infect it are more dangerous than the viruses. Viral is much more common but can be dangerous as well.
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleId=245
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleId=245
Reply 7
11
viral meningitis is actually more common. But much less serious. People usually make a full recovery. Bacterial meningitis kills 1 in 10, and that's without the bacteria infecting the blood too (septicaemia).
Reply 8
Saffie
you're right.
assuming both are treated, though you don't really treat viral meningitis other than to remove symptoms.. bacterial meningitis is still more dangerous.
assuming both are treated, though you don't really treat viral meningitis other than to remove symptoms.. bacterial meningitis is still more dangerous.
Ah, so I did remember something from GCSE Biology :P Anyway, you learn something new everyday! I didn't even know there was a bacterial and viral form of meningitis. I was never very good with that kind of stuff.
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