Prevention and Treatment of Meningitis

a)BCG vaccination at birth will help prevent tubercular meningitis.
b)One type of bacterial meningitis can be prevented by Hib vaccination
of those at risik ,however,antibiotics give effective protection to
most people having contact with persons who already have meningitis.
c)On the whole,vaccines have not been very successful due to the
variety of strains involved and the limited duration of the effect of
the vaccine,nor can they halt the progress of an epidemic unles they
are targeted at a known serogroup.