In Pouldergat, a little girl died of meningitis. About sixty people around him were placed on preventive treatment.
A student from the Yves-Riou public school in Pouldergat, near Douarnenez (Finistère), died of meningitis on Wednesday, the newspaper reports West France. The little girl, who attended kindergarten, was hospitalized in Brest in a pediatric intensive care unit after having tested positive for invasive type B meningococcal infection.
“It’s appalling,” says Mayor Gaby Le Guellec, quoted by the daily. This morning, everyone was in tears, parents, teachers and staff from the Yves-Riou school. We organized a sort of crisis unit for the little ones and their parents, in order to understand and discuss what happened, alongside the director, the doctor, the nurse and the school psychologist. “
Preventive treatment
Since Tuesday, the ARS team is in the process of identifying all the people likely to have been in contact with the little girl, starting with her family and her “social environment”. “This therefore concerns people who have been in contact with the student over the past ten days, face to face, for more than an hour and less than a meter away,” said the health authorities, dispatched to square. The nursery school has 80 children divided into three classes.
In all, about sixty people have been identified and will need to take preventive treatment (prophylaxis) in order to avoid the development of an infection.
With six cases per 100,000 population, invasive meningococcal type B infection is quite rare. Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges, the envelopes of the brain, and the spinal cord. It occurs at any age, but more particularly affects children and adolescents. Symptoms are severe headache (“headache”), stiff neck, high fever, intolerance to light (“photophobia”), nausea or vomiting.
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