Babies: Meningitis

(asked on 2nd December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in new-born babies.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 12th December 2016

The most common cause of neonatal meningitis is bacterial infection of the blood, known as bacteremia. (The specific bacteria are Group B Streptococci).

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