Satun residents watched for meningococcal disease
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Satun's Khuan Ka Long District heath office has launched measures to monitor the spread of meningococcal disease after a 29-year-old woman developed suspicious symptoms and died on Tuesday. Her five-year-old daughter is currently being treated at Satun Ho
Since initial test results for both patients came out positive for meningococcal disease, further tests have been done and results should be out soon, health official Avudh Phokaew said.
Tambon Khuan Ka Long Health Promotion Hospital has sent out a team to check on students at the 155-pupil Ban Khao Krai School, where the late woman’s daughter was going to kindergarten, he said.
In addition to providing information to teachers and pupils, the team also medicated the girl’s 13 classmates and some 30 close contacts. The parents have been told to closely monitor all the children for 20 days. The children will also be medicated for a second time soon, he added.
The school was closed yesterday so the facility could be disinfected.
