CT: Yale University student may have meningitis- confirmed

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Source: http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/02/06/breaking-yale-student-may-have-meningitis/

BREAKING: Yale student may have meningitis
Students in close contact are being treated with antibiotics
By Amaka Uchegbu
Staff Reporter
Friday, February 6, 2015

This is a developing story. Check back for regular updates.
Updated: 5:30 p.m.



Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin notified the Yale community Friday afternoon that an undergraduate student may have meningitis.

According to Genecin?s email, a student was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital Thursday evening with symptoms that may indicate bacterial meningococcal disease. A close friend of the patient said she was told by clinicians that the patient has been contagious since Jan. 26 and was brought to Yale Health by their suitemates after being sick for some time. Genecin, Chief of Student Health Andrew Gotlin and other medical leaders were called into an emergency meeting this afternoon at 3:15 p.m. to discuss the emergency situation.

?The University has activated its emergency response protocol,? Genecin said in his email, which was also forwarded to parents and guardians of Yale College students by Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway...

 

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Source: http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/...-confirmation-yale-health-to-provide-vaccine/


After meningitis confirmation, Yale Health to provide vaccine
By Amaka Uchegbu
Staff Reporter
Friday, February 13, 2015

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that the Yale college student with probable meningitis tested positive for serogroup B meningococcal disease.

In a Friday campus-wide email, Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin said that the suspected diagnosis of the student, who was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital last Thursday after headaches and vomiting, was confirmed. According to Calhoun College Master Julia Adams, the student has been discharged from YNHH and is showing signs of improvement. In the campus-wide email, Genecin confirmed that there have been no further cases of meningitis on campus so far. Given that serogroup B meningococcal disease normally occurs sporadically, a single case does not necessarily indicate an outbreak, he noted in his email.

In the email, Genecin also said that Yale Health will soon begin offering a vaccine to protect against serogroup B meningococcal meningitis...