WA: Healthy 20-yr-old woman dies from viral meningitis (Virus not identified)

[Emily]

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Patterson wanted to share happiness with others

by DANNIE OLIVEAUX, Port Orchard Independent Editor
posted Oct 10, 2013 at 9:39 AM? updated Oct 10, 2013 at 10:20 AM
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?She worked at Dairy Queen for about a year and a half and was putting herself through college,? Victoria said. ?She wanted to be a nurse because she wanted to help people.?

Headaches begin

Tacey became ill early last month after complaining about headaches. She went to the doctors at Harrison Medical Center and they gave her medications for a sinus inflection, which seemed to make her headaches better...

The article says that a spinal tap was finally done and showed viral encephalitis, but the virus was not identified. Searching for 'meningitis' and the county name yielded another recent news story, but it is thought that the patient involved got West Nile after his recent move to Arizona where he got sick:

Family can only watch as Silverdale man fights for his life