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Osakidetza has interevened in 7 schools of Bizkaia in so far this year because of meningitis
Favorable trend baracaldesa girl of two years who was hospitalized on Tuesday to being diagnosed with the disease
20.07.12
The two year old girl who on Tuesday admitted to the hospital sick with meningitis Cruces' evolving favorably ", as reported yesterday, Health Department sources of the Basque Government.
"The situation is now totally controlled and there were no new cases," explained the sources, adding that the analyzes performed to have found small class C meningococcal.
This type of bacteria has vaccine and prophylactic measures work very well, experts say. Better than meningitis B. More than thirty children in the school's classroom Regato shared with the child (all of them participated in a summer educational program) are taking an antibiotic to "break a potential chain of infection" and prevent them from developing the disease, in the hypothetical if they had been in contact with the microbe.
From Osakidetza launched a message of "peace." And they remembered that detection of this type of infection in schools is relatively common. So far this year 20 cases were diagnosed in Bizkaia.
Health has decided to intervene in seven schools, to occur in young children (up to five years).
As has happened in the educational baracaldés, its professionals have provided preventive medication to the patient's classmates and teachers, as states the official protocol.
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