One-year-old girl in a serious condition after contracting deadly meningococcal disease - as 41 people who came into contact with the child are told to get antibiotics immediately
- 41 people who came into contact with her are taking precautionary antibiotics
- Health officials are working closely with the childcare centre she attended
- The girl is the third person to get meningococcal in South Australia this year
A one-year-old girl is in a serious condition in hospital after contracting the deadly meningococcal disease.
South Australia Health says the Adelaide girl has the B strain of the disease.
A total of 41 people who came into contact with the girl are now receiving antibiotics as a precaution.
The girl went to Greenwith Child Care Centre and Kindergarten in the north of Adelaide.
SA Health says the girl has the B strain of the disease and remains in hospital - while 41 people who came into contact with her are receiving antibiotics as a precaution
Health officials are working closely with staff and parents from the childcare centre.
The disease is especially dangerous to babies and children up to the age of five, with six cases reported in SA at the same time last year.
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Of the three cases, two had group B strain and one had W strain.
The baby girl is the third case of meningococcal in South Australia so far this year.
The common symptoms of babies suffering from the disease is fever, refusing to eat, cold hands or feet, rash of red-purple spots or bruises and pale blotchy complexion.
Health officials are working closely with staff and parents from Greenwith Child Care Centre and Kindergarten (pictured) -after a child who attended the centre was struck down with meningococcal disease
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