One UI student dies from infection; another has meningitis

A University of Illinois student has died from an unidentified infection and a second student is recovering from meningitis.

The two appear unrelated, the UI said this afternoon.

Robert H. Davis, 21, of Mokena, a senior majoring in biology, died at 8:49 p.m. Thursday at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, the UI said. Tests confirmed he did not have a contagious form of meningitis, according to UI spokeswoman Robin Kaler.

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