Dead chauffeur tests negative for Neisseria meningitidis type Y and W135
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A 63-year-old company chauffeur who reportedly died on Sunday from meningococcal meningitis tested negative for Neisseria meningitidis type Y and W135, the most common strains of this serious human-human transmitted bacterial infection, a source at the Ub
However, as a precaution, health officials have provided 158 of the dead chauffeur’s close contacts with medicine and they will be put under surveillance for a few more days, the source said.
The real cause of death of the man will have to be investigated after the case doctor and experts from the Bureau of Epidemiology concurred that at best meningococcal meningitis was the suspected death, as the result of the test conducted on Wednesday was negative, the source said.
