How A Meningococcal Outbreak Held Santa Clara University In Its Grips
The Washington Post paints the picture of a school dealing with its "worst fear" and how it emerged from the sleepless, panic-ridden week.
The Washington Post:
‘It’s Everyone’s Worst Fear’: How A Small College Survived An Outbreak
About dawn one Sunday morning, a health official at a small Jesuit college in California got an alarming phone call: A student had been rushed to the hospital. The ER staff quickly suspected meningitis. And while they treated and tested for the highly contagious, often fatal disease, scores of other students were streaming into the emergency room, frightened by their own symptoms. “It’s everyone’s worst fear in college health,” said Joshua M. Sharfstein, associate dean at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Meningitis strikes very quickly. Someone looking well one day could be dead the next.” (Svrluga, 4/7)
And in other public health news —
San Bernardino Sun:
Zika Virus Discussed At World Health Day Talk At Loma Linda
A second traveler has returned to San Bernardino County with the Zika virus, yet even as the number of confirmed cases slowly climbs in California, an infectious disease specialist said Thursday the state may never see the kind of epidemic taking place elsewhere in the Americas. The San Bernardino County resident tested positive for Zika after being infected with the virus while traveling outside the U.S., San Bernardino County Department of Public Health spokeswoman Claudia Doyle said Thursday. (Hurt, 4/7)