How to Prevent Viral Meningitis

While viral meningitis might seem to be a bit less threatening than bacterial meningitis, it is still a disease you're going to be much more comfortable avoiding rather than conquering head on. Your head, in fact, might thank you for it as well. Primarily spread by contact between humans as a result of poor hygiene, its rapid onset of symptoms and possible two-week life span might cause you to wish you had listened to your mother a bit more attentively when it came to her suggestions about regular hand-washing!