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Eighth-Grader Diagnosed With Meningitis

Kiski Area Student, 13, Treated

UPDATED: 9:32 a.m. EST February 21, 2003

A Kiski Area Intermediate School eighth-grader is being treated for bacterial meningitis.

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Parents in the Westmoreland County school district near Vandergrift said a letter was sent home to parents Thursday.

The 13-year-old boy is being treated at a hospital in Allegheny County, according to health department spokesman Guillermo Cole.

Cole and the school said the child and family members are being given antibiotics as a precaution.

Because bacterial meningitis is spread by coming in contact with nose or throat secretions from the infected person, classmates and others who only have casual contact with the child are not likely to contact the disease, school officials said.

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