Campus officials getting word out on meningitis
By Julie Wurth
Friday February 29, 2008
Vanda Bidwell
Kirsten Ruby, assistant director of housing for marketing, puts up a poster about meningitis in the basement of Clark Hall on the University of Illinois campus on Thursday.
URBANA – Thousands of students entering the University of Illinois each year are vaccinated against meningococcal disease, a life-threatening bacterial infection that can lead to meningitis.
Two people connected to the UI – a female student and a male who graduated in December – were diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis in the last week. The female student is expected to fully recover, but the graduate was still listed in critical but stable condition Thursday at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.
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