In general, most vaccines in current use are either of the "killed" or "attenuated" (weakened) type of production. One exception is the oral polio virus, which is a live virus and can cause infection...
It caused extreme pain in the neck first. She also had headaches which she described as 'like a candle (going up her back)with a flame (inside her head) . The head aches were not initially like this...
You get meningitis from sharing drinks with other people, if they have it.
It can be deadly too.
But there is a shot for it, and then you can't get it.
it is very very very very very very deadly...