On Thursday February 8, 2024, a 19-year-old student from Lille died from meningitis. Her state of health suddenly deteriorated and her hospital treatment was not enough to save her.
His ordeal began with a simple discomfort. Last Thursday, a 19-year-old student died due to a meningococcal infection in Lille, reports The voice of the North. Information intended for students and parents has been distributed in order to find contact cases.
Blazing infection
Victim of illness at home, a student was taken care of in Lille, in the North, before her condition worsened. suddenly deteriorates. Her infection, which was devastating, killed her in a few hours.
However, emergency services intervened on Thursday morning at his home, before taking him to Lille University Hospital. Despite resuscitation attempts by teams from the cardiopulmonary institute, she did not survive.
Search for contact cases
The city’s Catholic university, where the young woman was studying in her first year, sent a message to its students: “The Faculty and the university health service have since been in close contact with the Regional Health Agency.”
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A procedure of “contact tracing”or search for contact cases, carried out by the Regional Health Agency has been launched, specifies the head of the emergency center Roch Joly to our colleagues: “Student contacts requiring the implementation of preventive measures have been exhaustively identified and contacted individually by the ARS teams.
To do this, “they first establish a list of people said to be at risk, the entourage and the core group close to the person. These people are called by email or SMS in order to follow antibiotic treatment”, he specifies. To date, thirteen people would be affected and would begin a antibiotic treatment.