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U of I Officials Give Health Tips To Battle Meningitis

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By News 25 Staff

Story Published: Feb 28, 2008 at 12:14 PM CST

Story Updated: Feb 28, 2008 at 12:14 PM CST

University of Illinois officials are dealing with several cases of meningitis and warn students to be safe.

They are advising students not to share glasses or utensils or engage in
other behavior that can pass germs after a recent graduate's hospitalization with meningitis.

The recent grad is in critical condition, a week after a student at the school was hospitalized with the disease.

University spokeswoman Robin Kaler says the former student has meningococcal meningitis, a contagious and potentially lethal brain
or spinal inflammation.

Kaler says campus officials are investigating the possibility that the cases are related.

She says the student hospitalized last week has been released and is expected to fully recover.

Five university students died of meningitis in 1991 and '92 and eight more became sick.

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