Prognosis:
-With early treatment, meningococcal meningitis has a fair prognosis (13% mortality rate).
-The overwhelming majority of patients who receive early treatment make a full recovery within a few weeks
-Of those who survive, 85% make a full recovery, while 15% suffer from neurological defects (such as hearing and sight loss), loss of limbs, learning difficulties, or paralysis.
With late treatment:
-Permanent brain damage or death is more likely to occur, and the prognosis for death spikes to anywhere from 50-90%, depending on the circumstances.
-Sometimes death occurs even with early treatment, since the disease progresses so quickly. With late treatment, the possibility of death increases with complications such as seizures or tissue damage.
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