If you come into close contact with someone with meningococcal meningitis for example- if you live in the same house or have kissed the infected person you should seek medical advice. You may need to take a preventive course of antibiotics. Other types of meningitis are usually less infectious. Other steps to prevent the spread of meningitis include avoiding contact with people known to have possible meningitis. Regular hand-washing and placing your hand over your mouth when coughing and sneezing can help to stop meningitis spreading from person to person.
Attribution: BUPA
See also:
- Fever and meningitis/septicaemia
- Complications of meningitis & septicaemia
- Tests for meningitis
- Treatment of meningitis
- Prevention of meningitis - immunisation
- Immunity to meningitis