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  • Health officials ponder meningitis options

    03/19/2002 11:30:38 AM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 147+ views
    UPI ^ | 3/19/02
    Health officials Tuesday debated whether to order widespread preventative immunizations after a Purdue University student contracted bacterial meningitis while on spring break in Florida. It was unclear when the student was infected since the disease can incubate for as long as 10 days before symptoms are displayed. The 19-year-old freshman became ill Saturday at an airport as he awaited a flight back to Indiana from Florida. A university spokesman said the youth is hospitalized in Fort Myers, Fla., in guarded but improving condition. So far, immunizations and antibiotics have been ordered only for those who had close contact with the...