Colorado: Bacterial meningitis casts shadow over region

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Source: http://www.ncbr.com/article.asp?id=54450

Bacterial meningitis casts shadow over region
By Steve Porter

November 5, 2010 --
FORT COLLINS - The sky isn't falling, but Northern Colorado residents are living under a shadow of potentially deadly bacterial meningitis.

Two young, healthy Colorado State University students living in Fort Collins...

 

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Source: http://www.necn.com/11/19/10/Denver...ockID=3&apID=e4a98e4348744d4592e400775d7f93f9

Denver student's death possible meningococcal case
Nov 19, 2010 10:41pm

DENVER (AP) ? State health officials are investigating the death of a Denver college student as a possible case of meningococcal disease...

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Source: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/25864065/detail.html

Growing Concern About Meningitis On Auraria Campus
Officials Awaiting Test Results In Metro State Student's Death
AnaCabrera, 7NEWS Anchor/Reporter
POSTED: 3:21 pm MST November 20, 2010
UPDATED: 3:39 pm MST November 20, 2010
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DENVER -- As health officials await test results following the death of a Metro State student, campus officials are urging students and faculty to get meningococcal vaccines...

 

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Source: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/education/26260041/detail.html

Recent CSU Meningococcal Case Linked To Others
Student Recuperating At Home, Health Officials Say
Posted by Kim Nguyen, Web Editor

POSTED: 1:33 pm MST December 23, 2010
UPDATED: 2:16 pm MST December 23, 2010

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- The recent meningococcal virus case involving a Colorado State University student is connected to the other cases in Larimer County, as health department officials suspected.

"The bacteria that caused invasive meningococcal disease in a CSU student in early December match the organisms that caused other cases in Northern Colorado over the last eight months," the health department announced Thursday. "The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment?s lab has confirmed that the bacteria that caused the recent infection were Group C meningococcal bacteria (also called Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup C). In addition, special molecular 'fingerprinting' tests (called PFGE tests) allowed them to confirm eight of these cases were caused by identical strains."

Four of the eight cases reported in Larimer County since May have been fatal.
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The most recent case was a CSU student who was hospitalized in early December with a meningococcal disease...

 

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Source: http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-menin...fairview-high-school-20110106,0,7236389.story

Meningitis scare at Boulder's Fairview High School
5:20 p.m. MST, January 6, 2011
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BOULDER, Colo. -- Phone calls began pouring into Boulder's Fairview High School after word spread about a meningitis outbreak.

"We started getting a few phone calls saying we heard someone has meningitis," said Fairview Principal Don Stensrud...

...To help calm their fears, Stensrud sent a letter to parents to inform them of the situation, explaining that a student's family member was hospitalized with a noninfectious viral strain of meningitis...

 

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[SIZE=-1]Local woman dies despite 2007 vaccination
11:37 PM PST on Saturday, January 22, 2011

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[SIZE=-1]By LORA HINES[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Press-Enterprise[/SIZE]


The federal public health agency that investigates, diagnoses and prevents disease spread could change its childhood immunization schedule and adopt a recommendation this week for teenagers to get vaccine boosters for the bacteria that causes meningitis.

The anticipated change by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention comes as at least nine people, including a former Eastvale Roosevelt athlete, have died or become ill from meningitis-related illnesses since April. Most of those people were affected by an outbreak of meningococcal infections, primarily at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Read more:
http://www.pe.com/localnews/healthcare/stories/PE_News_Local_D_meningitis23.1dd1115.html