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| Biological Hazard | USA | State of California, Santa Barbara [UCSB] |  |  |
| Description | |
| Santa Barbara County public health officials announced Thursday that a third case of meningococcal disease has been confirmed at UC Santa Barbara - thus meeting the definition of an outbreak. The health department announced earlier this week that two students were receiving treatment for the disease, a bacterial infection that causes bloodstream infections and meningitis. The third case to develop in the span of one week was confirmed Thursday morning at a press conference held in downtown Santa Barbara where public health, UCSB and other local health providers updated the media. The first case is a male student who became ill on Nov. 11, and the second is also a male student who became ill on Nov. 13. The third and most recent case is a female student who became ill on Monday, according to the Public Health Department. Two of those students live on campus. UCSB officials say that the second student to be diagnosed has recovered and is attending classes again, while the third student has almost fully recovered. The Public Health Department is conducting blood tests on other potential cases and will provide updated case counts as they are confirmed, according to Dr. Charity Thoman, deputy health officer for public health. University and public health officials are investigating the cases and have taken preventive measures, including prescribing antibiotics, for more than 300 students considered "close contacts" with the ill students. How the students may have contracted the disease is unknown, but Thoman said "there was some contact between cases." College-age people, especially first-year students living in residence halls, are at increased risk of meningococcal disease. Those considered close contacts include people exposed to the ill person’s respiratory and throat secretions through living in close quarters, kissing or other prolonged close contact. There is no vaccine for the type of strain found in the students, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved a vaccine in the country. | |
| Biohazard name: | Meningitis (bacterial) |
| Biohazard level: | 3/4 Hight |
| Biohazard desc.: | Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level. |
| Symptoms: | |
| Status: | confirmed |
LA Times Local
Third meningitis case confirmed among students at UC Santa Barbara
A third student at UC Santa
Barbara has been diagnosed with the disease that causes meningitis.
Above, Storke Tower presides over the campus.
(Susan Spano / For The Times)
A third UC Santa Barbara student has been diagnosed with the disease that causes meningitis, public health officials announced Thursday.
The first two confirmed cases of meningococcal disease were of male students, the first one of whom fell ill Nov. 11. The latest case is of a female student who was diagnosed Monday..
More than 300 students at UCSB who may have had close contact with the sick students have been given antibiotics, health officials said. The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department is also conducting tests to see if there are other cases.
The university previously announced it was increasing its cleaning procedures in residence halls, the recreation center and sports facilities.
More than 300 students at UCSB who may have had close contact with the sick students have been given antibiotics, health officials said. The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department is also conducting tests to see if there are other cases.
The university previously announced it was increasing its cleaning procedures in residence halls, the recreation center and sports facilities.
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U-T San Diego
3 UC Santa Barbara students sick from meningitis
SANTA
BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A bacterial meningitis outbreak has sickened
three students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, health
officials said Thursday.
Over
300 students who had close contact with the ill students were given
antibiotics, said Charity Thoman, deputy health officer at the Santa
Barbara County Public Health Department.
The
latest case involved a female student who was diagnosed with
meningococcal disease earlier this week. Last week, two male students
fell ill. None of the cases have been fatal.
"We've been on high alert," said Mary Ferris, executive director of student health services.
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