It’s been over seven days since a student was hospitalized with an infection from a bacteria that causes meningitis and Lane County Public Health is no longer worried about whether or not the bacteria has spread.
The incubation period for meningococcemia is seven days, which means that if the unnamed student passed it on to other students, they would have begun showing symptoms already, according to Jason Davis, public information office for Lane County Public Health.
“The fact that we haven’t received any reports of cases is encouraging,” Davis said. “I think we have moved past the window of when we’re most concerned.”
As for the student, the conversation has switched from mortality to recovery, Davis said. The student is sure to make it, but health professionals still aren’t sure if she sustained neurological damage from the infection. Until the student is lucid and can start performing tasks, doctors won’t know.
She is not being treated in Eugene, but is receiving “the best care she can in Oregon,” Davis said.
UO past danger zone for meningitis spreading, public health says
Scott Greenstone
January 21, 2015
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