Memingitis

Student hospitalized with meningitis

Published in Blood Weekly, November 18th, 2004

A student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been hospitalized with a strain of bacterial meningitis, and health officials urged anyone who may have come in contact with him in mid-to-late October to get treatment.

They issued a particular warning to anyone who may have attended a party October 22, 2004, on Chamberlain Road in Raleigh near the North Carolina State University campus. Jonathan Parker Davis, 18, the infected student, attended the party.

The N.C. State Student Health Center will be offering free preventive treatment to students.

Meningococcal meningitis is a type of bacterial meningitis, a serious...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2004-11-18)

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