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Meningitis

Meningitis outbreak feared in village

HEALTH experts were last night investigating a suspected outbreak of bacterial meningitis in a Deeside village.

Fears played down after five treated for meningitis

FIVE children from the same area, including a two-week old baby girl, are being treated for the potentially deadly meningitis virus.

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Schoolgirl dies from meningitis

A TEENAGE schoolgirl in Dumfries has died from meningitis. Jenna Dempster, 17, a sixth-year pupil at Dumfries Academy, became ill on Sunday night and was admitted to Dumfries Infirmary, where she died yesterday.

Three being treated for suspected meningitis

A FOUR-MONTH old baby girl is one of three people from Fife who have been hospitalised with suspected meningitis.

Student treated for meningitis

A 17-YEAR-OLD university student was being treated in hospital for meningitis, health chiefs confirmed last night. Greater Glasgow NHS public health officials said the case was an isolated one and the risk to the public was "negligible".

Capital pupil has suspected meningitis

A PUPIL at a private school in Edinburgh was last night undergoing tests at the Western General Hospital for suspected meningitis.

Meningitis victim 'with zest for life' is mourned

TRIBUTES were paid to five-year-old meningitis victim Kiera McRitchie as she was laid to rest at the weekend.

Third schoolgirl has meningitis

A THIRD primary schoolgirl has been admitted to hospital suffering from meningitis, but it is not of the same strain that caused the deaths of two Lanarkshire children over the weekend.

Schoolchildren receive meningitis vaccine

HEALTH officials were last night preparing to give antibiotics to hundreds of pupils after two children who lived in the same town died of meningitis.

Parents' grief as meningitis kills daughters

FOR the parents of five-year-old Kiera McRitchie, the coming weeks were expected to be a time of excitement, as they planned for Halloween, Bonfire Night and a family Christmas.

Two six-year-olds die from meningitis

HEALTH officials were giving advice to parents last night after two six-year-olds from the same area of a town died from meningitis over the weekend.

Help for 2000 after girl dies

MORE than 2000 pupils at a school where a girl died from meningitis five days ago were today being offered anti-biotics, following a second suspected case of the disease.

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