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  • Cornwall: Meningitis outbreak at secondary school

    Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml

    Girl dies and second is rushed to hospital after meningitis outbreak at secondary school

    By Richard Hartley-parkinson
    Last updated at 12:26 PM on 6th April 2011

    * Classmates given antibiotics to prevent spread of the disease
    * Experts cannot fathom a 'surge' in fatal cases this year

    A girl has died and another is in hospital after a meningitis outbreak at a school in Cornwall.

    Other children at Wadebridge School, a mixed comprehensive with around 1,200 students, are being given antibiotics after the girl, in Year 8, died on March 29...
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