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July 23, 2003

 

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

 

“Warning as Two Cases of Disease Confirmed”

Advertiser (AU) (www.theadvertiser.news.com.au) (07/22/03) P. 9; Lato, Daniel

 

Australia’s Communicable Disease Control Branch director Rod Givney is warning Australians to seek treatment for flu-like symptoms after two cases of meningococcal disease were reported in South Australia.  So far this year, South Australia has reported one death due to the disease and 11 people who received treatment.  Due to the difficulty in diagnosing meningococcal disease, Givney cautions patients with flu-like symptoms, who are told they will get better on their own, to contact their physician immediately if they do not improve.  “The rapidity of the onset of the disease is such that you can get very much sicker very quickly,” he says. Free vaccinations against the C strain of meningococcal disease are now being offered, Givney adds.

 

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