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Soldier gravely ill with bacterial meningitis prompts public health effort
By NANCY MONTGOMERY | STARS AND STRIPES Published: October 24, 2018
VICENZA, Italy ? Public health officials were working Wednesday to locate and treat people who had contact over the weekend with a gravely ill U.S. soldier diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.
Italian public health authorities were trying to locate up to 200 people who went on Friday to a popular local nightclub, Custom Club, so that if needed they could be provided prophylactic antibiotics, according to the newspaper Giornale di Vicenza.
The effort began after a 25-year-old paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade was taken to the San Bortolo Hospital emergency room on Monday following worsening symptoms ? fever and headache ? he?d reported earlier.
On Wednesday, the soldier, who has not been identified, was reportedly in guarded condition in a medically induced coma...
Soldier gravely ill with bacterial meningitis prompts public health effort
By NANCY MONTGOMERY | STARS AND STRIPES Published: October 24, 2018
VICENZA, Italy ? Public health officials were working Wednesday to locate and treat people who had contact over the weekend with a gravely ill U.S. soldier diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.
Italian public health authorities were trying to locate up to 200 people who went on Friday to a popular local nightclub, Custom Club, so that if needed they could be provided prophylactic antibiotics, according to the newspaper Giornale di Vicenza.
The effort began after a 25-year-old paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade was taken to the San Bortolo Hospital emergency room on Monday following worsening symptoms ? fever and headache ? he?d reported earlier.
On Wednesday, the soldier, who has not been identified, was reportedly in guarded condition in a medically induced coma...