This Thursday, May 24, the Regional Health Agency announced that a young woman of 20 died of meningitis on the night of May 14 to 15 at the Lapeyronie hospital in Montpellier, as reported Free noon.
The young woman went to the emergency room in full complaining of headaches, vomiting and stains on the body, according to her relatives questioned by the daily. “Quickly his kidneys stopped functioning (…). Everything was extremely fast. After the autopsy, we were told that it was a meningococcal meningitis type C”, confides the One. Two.
No link established with death of student in early May
About ten people around the victim received preventive treatment with antibiotics. The Regional Health Agency confirmed the cause of death on a daily basis, specifying that analyzes were still underway to determine with certainty the nature of the infection. The young woman was buried on Wednesday 23 May.
On May 3, a 23-year-old student also succumbed to devastating bacterial meningitis in Palavas-les-Flots in the Hérault, no link can be established between the two cases.
There is a vaccine against meningitis C which has been recommended since 2010 by the public authorities for people aged 12 months to 24 years.
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