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Aspirin helps increase survival from TB meningitis by reducing brain inflammation and preventing the disease from blocking blood vessels in the brain that cause parts of the brain to die, commonly called ‘stroke’.

TB bacteria
Acid-fast bacilli of Myobacterium tuberculosis (the red cords; the blue blobs are white cells) in the cerebrospinal Fluid of a patient with tuberculous meningitis