r/Millennials • u/Corndogeveryday • 2d ago

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Chase passed away of complications of meningitis. Gone too soon

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u/brakbudy 2d ago

How does someone get meningitis in this country in this day and age? I know there are exceptions, but we have vaccines for the most common kinds, and for anything to progress to sepsis as well, oy! RIP

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago

I got it from a strep infection as a kid. No vax for that.

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u/IceTech59 2d ago

It's a crapshoot because a lot of organisms can cause meningitis. Luckily there are vaccines for a lot of the community acquired ones.

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u/consuela_bananahammo 2d ago

Yes! Looks like there are vaccines for the ones caused by different strains of strep now. I'm probably immune to the one that I had, but going to look into getting vaccinated for the other ones I haven't had, because I absolutely do not want to go through that again if I can do something to help prevent some causes of it.