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...
There is really no difference between the symptoms of viral and bacterial meningitis. With both you will have fever, headache, stiff neck, vomiting, and sensitivity to light. However that being said...