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It can do brain damage to your brain. The cause of it is viruses, fungi, normally bacteria.

Well, Meningitis is caused by bacteria flooding the cerebrospinal fluid which is found in between the meninges (layers of membranes surrounding the brain and the spinal cord) so I'd say that Meningitis can do damage to the brain and the spinal cord.

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