1. Meningitis : Prevention  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
Haemophilus vaccine (HiB vaccine) in children will help prevent one type of meningitis; The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is now a routine childhood immunization and is very effective at preventing pneumococcal meningitis; Household members and o...• Reviewer: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Jatin M. Vyas, PhD, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

2. Meningitis : Prevention  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
Prevention of meningitis primarily involves the appropriate treatment of other infections an individual may acquire, particularly those that have a track record of seeding to the meninges (such as ear and sinus infections). Preventive treatment wi...• Author: Mai Tran, Rebecca J. Frey PhD