Legevakten is informed that it is identified one case of meningitis in this year’s graduating classes, reports emergency in Drammen.
– We encourage anyone who has been in contact with the person to be attentive, says CEO Per Magne Mikaelsen in a statement.
Meningitis caused by meningococcal bacteria is transmitted through saliva.
Transmitter by close contact
Anyone who has been in close contact with the patient must have preventive antibiotic treatment. With close contact means those who have drunk from the same glass / bottle, kissed or been in close contact with saliva. Members of household must also be treated preventively. One does not become infected by being in the same room or such same russebuss.
Meningitis is a potentially dangerous disease. The patient has been vindicated diagnosed through laboratory tests.
This is the symptoms
Symptoms of meningitis are high fever, included general condition, groggy consciousness, headaches, neck and back stiffness, nausea, vomiting, photophobia and convulsions.
– Do you get any of these symptoms, or in doubt, we recommend that you contact the emergency in order to clarify the situation, said Mikaelsen.
He says to Drammen Tidende that during the last hours have been many troubled Russian and relatives to the emergency room.
Many have vaccinated
Kommuneoverlege in Upper and Lower Spokes, Einar Braathen, told the newspaper that they even do not know which type of meningitis patient.
He said that school leavers in frame area has been quick to get vaccinated this year, but that there is still a part that has not done it.
Frames particularly young people
More than 97 percent of cases of meningitis are single. When it occurs a case number two, will this rule from a few days to a few weeks after the first. Anyone can get the disease, but it is particularly children under 5 years and adolescents between 13 and 20 years who are affected.
First russe-case since 2011
In 2010, there were nine 2011 four cases of meningitis that could be linked to the Russian celebration. In autumn 2011 recommended Folkehelseinstituttet that Russians should consider vaccination. The last three years it has claimed Folkehelsa not been any cases connected with russ celebration.
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