2024-01-20 19:12:00
A young woman suffering from meningococcal meningitis was admitted to Bastia hospital on the night of Friday January 19 to Saturday January 20. This high school student is studying in her final year at the Giocante di Casabianca high school. The establishment immediately alerted the Corsican Regional Health Agency (ARS) and sent a vigilance letter to the families of the approximately 1,300 students at the school.
Contact cases identified
In a press release released this Saturday, the ARS indicates that it has implemented prophylaxis measures in those close to the patient. “all people identified as high-risk contacts have or will benefit from antibiotic treatment to prevent the occurrence of any new cases.”
In conjunction with all the services concerned, the ARS carried out epidemiological investigations making it possible to identify and preventively treat contact persons at risk in the family, friends, school, sports and medical spheres. “This prophylactic treatment with antibiotics makes it possible to prevent the occurrence of serious forms, cut the chains of transmission and thus limit the risks of epidemics.“the Regional Health Agency is told.
To behave
The ARS recommends not going to the emergency room or a pharmacy without having first been contacted by a doctor or nurse from the ARS. In case of symptoms, you must call 15. “In fact, preventive treatment with antibiotics is only available on prescription. This will be issued to you if you are identified as a person at risk, that is to say if you have had close contact (less than one meter face to face) and prolonged (more than an hour) with the sick person in the last 10 days. People in the entourage of at-risk contacts are not contacts.”
Symptoms and transmission
Meningococcal meningitis generally occurs in early childhood and in adolescents and young adults (between 16 and 24 years) and combines an infectious syndrome (fever, violent headache, vomiting) and a meningeal syndrome (stiffness of the neck, lethargy, impaired consciousness, aches and fatigue, red or purplish subcutaneous spots (purpura) on the body). Meningococcal transmission occurs through nasopharyngeal secretions due to close and repeated contact. Transmission is favored in the family home or community living conditions.
Faced with these symptoms, call 15
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