If you get the meningitis vaccine can you still get meningitis?!
Question: yes, in rare cases, you just wont get it as bad as you would if you didn't have the shot.
I got the flu shot and I got the flu, but not as bad.
Answers: yes, in rare cases, you just wont get it as bad as you would if you didn't have the shot.
I got the flu shot and I got the flu, but not as bad.
In short, yes. No vaccine is perfect, cases of failure can occur with a faulty vaccine batch or mutation of the organism. Anyway, you probably got the vaccine against one organism but a variety of organisms can cause meningitis, ranging from bacteria, viruses to tuberculosis.
Yes you can. Even if you are vaccinated against the same strain. The big con is that they use a surrogate endpoint - antibody levels - to assess a vaccine's effectiveness. The fact is the level of antibodies generated by vaccine in no way translates to immunity from that disease. Some people have high antibody levels and still get the disease, and others have low or no antibodies and seem immune.
Meningitis is actually just a generic term for any infection of the meninges--the lining of the spinal cord. The vaccine is only against one of the more common types--and one of the most deadly--meningiococcemia (Neisseria meningiditis) a bacteria related to gonorrhea. You can still get viral meningitis, parasitic, and other bacterial.
The vaccine is very effective for meningiococcemia.