Military officers checked after marine's mystery illness

Thanakan dismissed as untrue a rumour on Thai social media of a meningococcal disease outbreak following the death of the 26-year-old navy private who had a blood infection.
The private in question had trained for two months at the Naval Education Department’s Recruit Training Centre before he was inducted into the corps. Thanakan said he developed high fever, fatigue and dehydration on Saturday night. He was rushed to Naval Medical Department’s Sirikit Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
After an initial lab test suggested this might be a meningococcal disease, Thanakan instructed the private’s supervisors to bring 90 close contacts from previous and current facilities to a 15-day surveillance as a precaution. They included hundreds of fellow new recruits who were also submitted to health check-up and to take Ciprofloxacin.