Meningitis boy ‘recovering’

A schoolboy diagnosed with meningitis was yesterday said to be “recovering at home”.

Letters were issued to parents of year 11 students at Holy Family Catholic School in Keighley after the school was told of his condition last Thursday.

Dr Ebere Okereke, consultant in communicable disease control at the West Yorkshire Health Protection Unit, said: “The patient concerned is now recovering at home.

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Dr Okerere added: “As a precautionary measure, any close contacts of the individual affected have been offered preventative antibiotic treatment to help prevent further spread of the infection and reduce any health risk even further.”

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