24 Terrace Review —_— Thursday, January 2 2, 1992.

re

~ Meningitis -
reports call
for caution,
not panic,
chief medic
says —

is not: unusual; ‘says’ "Dr, .
serotype, an indication that the cases

: _ isolated outbreaks.
of meningococcal -meningitis,.

an inflammation - ‘of. the

Despite heavy media hy the number. .
OF: meningitis cases in Canada this year: .-
‘David.

: Bowering, chicf medical officer for. the

| Skeeria ‘Health Unit. The concern, ‘he |
. gays, is that they are all of the same

- may be somehow connected rather than
Three. people died recent in oun -
- * contagious bacterial disease that viusea -

_ tissue:
we surrounding the brain. In B.C. three

“past. month, ©
Bowering said Monday no meningitis.
has been recorded in the Skeena Health -
- Unit for the past’ several months, but’
that. reports in other parts of the coun-
. try "call for some vigilance". He adds
. that doctors‘in this area are very astute.
‘at recognizing the disease,
- Meningococral meningitis starts out’
with, flu-like ‘symptoms but’ rapidly -

becomes much worse. "It progresses.
rapidly, and: the individual. becomes -

cases; two i Kamioops and one’ in’ ah sicker “‘inuth.- ‘faster ‘than ™ one
‘Abbotsford, have been reported in the. : ,
"hallmark symptom. is a stiff neck,

- accompanied by fever, headache and.

sometimes a rash or spots all. over the

would. expect," Bowering ‘said. The

body.

The average mortality ‘rate from the -
disease is about 10 percent. "It’s very
treatable but potentially very serious,"

v, Bowering said. ‘Meningococcal:menin- | -
- gitis is contagious, but Bowering added |
‘that through "contact tracing” people}. :

exposed to the disease. can. be wacel- 1.

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